Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History [Paperback]

Thomas Albright (Author)

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• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: University of California Press; First Printing edition (June 6, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0520055187
• ISBN-13: 978-0520055186
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #645,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Durable Tribute to a Fine Art Critic, February 18, 2003

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This review is from: Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History (Hardcover)

ART IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 1945 - 1980 is the last written document by the highly regarded, departed writer and critic Thomas Albright. Always an elegant writer, even when his message was quircky, Albright has left us with the definitve volume on the important art of San Francisco in the peak of its heyday. The chapters each represent a lecture presented by Albright and include indepth studies of Clyfford Still and the Explosion of Abstract Expressionism, Before the Storm: The Modernist Foundation, The Watershed: Funk, Pop, and Formalism, "Back to Nature": The Bay Area Figurative School, Conceptualism, Photorealism, etc. The written word is well illustrated with selected examples, but therein lies the only weakness of this book. In an overview this solid it would be so much finer were there double the number of examples of the artists being discussed. Still in all this is a magnificent volume and should be a part of every art library.