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Suburbia has occupied a conflicted place in American life since the end of World War II, when the edges of cities across the nation began rapidly transforming into small metropolises of their own. California was at the heart of that boom, and in Suburban Escape Ann M. Wolfe offers a compelling look at the history and culture of California sprawl through art, from the 1950s to the present.
Suburban Escape presents the work of more than fifty renowned artists who use painting, photography, sculpture, and other media to examine the changes that suburbia has wrought on the physical, political, and social environments of California. The generic blandness of tract-home architecture, the negative—and positive—environmental impacts of suburban land-use patterns, and suburbs’ ever-changing cultural and ethnic demographics become fuel for the artistic imaginations of Ansel Adams and Robert Adams, Jeff Brouws and Fandra Chang, David Hockney and Ed Ruscha, Joel Sternfeld and Lewis Baltz, Laurie Brown and Larry Sultan, Richard Misrach and Camilo José Vergara, and dozens more.
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Ann M. Wolfe is curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. She previously served as an assistant curator at the San Jose Museum of Art, where she curated Sandow Birk’s Divine Comedy and coauthored with Lindsey M. Wylie Selections: The San Jose Museum of Art Permanent Collection.
"This is no one-sided anti-development screed. It's clear that the artists hold complex and differing viewpoints, ranging from Todd Hido's seemingly fond misty, voyeuristic photographs of welcoming, inner-lit houses to Lewis Baltz's cool black-and-white images of new homes that look almost Mondrian-like in their linear starkness." (Traci Vogel Wave Magazine 2006-11-01)
"Neither vilified nor venerated, these artists' suburbia is, beguilingly and bedevilingly, a site of ambivalence." (Pamela Feinsilber San Francisco Magazine 2006-09-01)
"Though none of them can be said to celebrate the subdivision, these paintings, photographs ,and installations make it clear that the changing landscape has provided fertile ground for artmaking." (Karen E. Steen Metropolis Magazine 2006-11-26)
“Yet even as it seethes, Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl finds a ruinous beauty in the sterile sameness so many of us call home.”--OC Weekly (Theo Douglas OC Weekly 2007-01-03)
"Suburban Escape manages to address numerous social and cultural concerns. . . . Adds a welcome layer of social context to architecturally insignificant structures." (Glen Helfand San Francisco Bay Guardian 2006-11-14)
"Neither vilified nor venerated, these artists' suburbia is, beguilingly and bedevilingly, a site of ambivalence." (Pamela Feinsilber San Francisco Magazine 2006-09-01)
"Though none of them can be said to celebrate the subdivision, these paintings, photographs ,and installations make it clear that the changing landscape has provided fertile ground for artmaking." (Karen E. Steen Metropolis Magazine 2006-11-26)
“Yet even as it seethes, Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl finds a ruinous beauty in the sterile sameness so many of us call home.”--OC Weekly (Theo Douglas OC Weekly 2007-01-03)
"Suburban Escape manages to address numerous social and cultural concerns. . . . Adds a welcome layer of social context to architecturally insignificant structures." (Glen Helfand San Francisco Bay Guardian 2006-11-14)
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- PublisherCenter for American Places
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1930066538
- ISBN 13 9781930066533
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages132
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Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl
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ISBN 13: 9781930066533
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good 4to 9 1/4" x 10 1/4" bright yellow cloth over board with stamped gilt lettering to front and spine, slight cocking to spine, some wear to tips and edges, faint soiling along edges, front and back, otherwise clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Very Good beige pictorial matte paper dustjacket featuring wraparound artwork "End of Horizons" from Eyewire Images: Main Street America, orange and black lettering to front, back, spine, and interior flaps, minor wear to tips, head, top edge, some sunning to spine and edges, light shelfwear to back, 1" pen mark to back, otherwise intact. [vi] xv, [2] 119 + 1 pp., Dedication and essay by Ann M. Wolfe, Preface and Acknowledgements by Daniel T. Keegan, Introduction by Lucy R. Lippard, Notes, Artists' Biographies, and About the Author, Essayist, and Biographer. Includes 2 pieces of laid-in ephemera: signed letter from Ann M. Wolfe to Robert Bechtle, sent with the book stating it is a complementary copy; free handout of the transcription of the main exhibition label for "Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl" at the San Jose Museum of Art. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl" at the San Jose Museum of Art from September 23, 2006 to March 4, 2007. From the inside of the dustjacket: "'Suburban Escape' presents the work of more than fifty renowned artists who use painting, photography, sculpture, and other media to examine the changes that suburbia has wrought on the physical, political, and social environments of California." Acquired from the private library of photorealist, Robert Bechtle and art historian, Whitney Chadwick. Heavy and oversized items may require additional shipping. Seller Inventory # 02135
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