Artist in the Counterculture
How California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped—and was shaped by—West Coast artists
The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period’s youth culture, largely incubated in California, on artists who came of age in that decade. As their prime exemplar, Bruce Conner, reminisced, “I did everything that everybody did i...
How California’s counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped—and was shaped by—West Coast artists
The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period’s youth culture, largely incubated in California, on artists who came of age in that decade. As their prime exemplar, Bruce Conner, reminisced, “I did everything that everybody did i...
