{"product_id":"slant-steps-9780520344068","title":"Slant Steps","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlant Steps explores the vital role of the semi-peripheryartistic communities working between the provinces and the metropole. Premised on the collective fascination with the found object Slant Step, the book details a history of encounters among artists, filmmakers, critics, and others operating in and out of the Bay Area during the long 1960s. They revised the terms of the counterculture, the appeal of consumer goods, and the surfaces and materials of industrial design and contemporary sculpture. Whether extending to international exchanges or shrinking to local coteries, these circles helped develop process, funk, and conceptual art as they forged new directions for the art world and its members. Yet when these groups degraded their own works alongside those of their rivals, they made their political and aesthetic commitments difficult to decipher, reorganizing the ties between the visual arts and the New Left. Merging sociologies of art with the tradition of social art history, Jac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e 1. Waste Makers \u003cbr\u003e 2. Parading the Fetish\u003cbr\u003e 3. Funk \u003cbr\u003e 4. Lax Behavior \u003cbr\u003e 5. Shoddy Meaning\u003cbr\u003e 6. Gatekeeping Rituals \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Semi-Peripheral Development\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Illustration Credits\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402934165847,"sku":"9780520344068","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520344068.jpg?v=1730481896","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/slant-steps-9780520344068","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}