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Book SynopsisThe Rat Bastard Protective Association was an inflammatory, close-knit community of artists who lived and worked in a building they dubbed Painterland in the Fillmore neighborhood of midcentury San Francisco. This book presents new and little-known archival material in this authorized account of these artists and their circle..
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. California Modernism after World War II 2. The Art of Assemblage, New York-- San Francisco 3. Rat Bastards in Painterland * 4. Artist-Run Galleries of the Fillmore 5. The Rat Bastard Protective Association and the Making of Assemblage 6. "Woodshedding" Years: The RBPA into the 1960s Conclusion Appendix: A Chronology of the Rat Bastard Protective Association and the California Arts Scene, 1944-- 1968 Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
