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Author: Richard Cándida Smith
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520206991

Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Poltics in California

A landmark study of California's visual arts and poetry, 1925 to 1975, Utopia and Dissent demonstrates the profound influence this regional culture had on American art and thought. Download Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry, and Poltics in California from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Combining intellectual and cultural history, it traces the spread of ideas developed in California's pre-World War II bohemian enclaves to mainstream America, where they became a major current of 1950s and 1960s counterculturism.
The provincial nature of California's prewar arts institutions, Richard CAndida Smith shows, fostered an aesthetics stressing personal expression and the exploration of life's mysteries through creativity. These ideas found expression in the beat generation's soul-searching and informed a decade-long debate about conformity. When Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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