Made in U.S.A. : an Americanization in modern art, the '50s & '60s

Library Item: 176955829

Made in U.S.A. : an Americanization in modern art, the '50s & '60s

1987

Inside cover inscription gifting the book to previous owner in 1996.;Catalogue for an exhibition organized by the University Art Museum, Berkeley and shown at : University Art Museum, Univ. of California, Berkeley, California, April 4 - June 21, 1987 and other locations. Contents:
Foreword / James Elliott --
Part One: An Americanization of American Art, the '50s and '60s --
Introduction --
The cultural climate in America after World War II --
American icons --
Cities, suburbs, and highways—the new American landscape --
American food and American marketing --
American mass media --
The American dream / The American dilemma --
Epilogue --
Part Two: Other Perspectives: Literature and Mass Media --
Frank O'Hara, popular culture, and American poetry in the 1950s / James E. B. Breslin --
Caricature and fiction in the affluent society / Thomas Schaub --
Endings, beginnings, and endings : media in the 1950s / Ben H. Bagdikian --
Chronology --
Bibliography --
Index.
Berkeley : University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.
ARTP Mad
9780520057579
0520057570
11 x 8 x 1 inches
Gift of Mary Holden Thompson and James Thompson