Suburban Escape

by Wolfe, Ann M.

• ISBN13: 9781930066540
• ISBN10: 1930066546
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-15
• Publisher: Center for Amer Places Inc

Summary

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 inSuburban EscapeAnn M. Wolfe offers a compelling look at the history and culture of California sprawl through art, from the 1950s to the present. Suburban Escapepresents 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 negativeand positiveenvironmental 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 Jose Vergara, and dozens more.

Author Biography

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.