SIGNED hotsell 4 artists BAY AREA Figurative 1950-1965 artist signed : Paul Wonner, Manuel Neri, Theophilus Brown, Bruce McGaw ( 4 ) modern art book

Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965
Jones, Caroline A.
Published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/ University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990. SIGNED by 4 ARTISTS featured BRUCE MCGAW, THEOPHILUS BROWN, PAUL WONNER, MANUEL NERI. Larger paperbound AS-IS with stain lower edge corners ; upper edge and corners ; tear bottom spine head edge else as-is fully intact ; loaded with illustrations, photos ; 231 pages with index.
During the 1950s a few hotsell painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, James Weeks, and Paul Wonner in the move away from abstraction and toward figurative subject matter. When artists such as Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, and Joan Brown emerged as a second generation of figurative artists, the momentum grew for a powerful new development in American painting.

The achievement of Bay Area Figurative painters and sculptors has become directly relevant to current debates regarding abstraction and representation, as well as to discourses on modernism and postmodernism. Indeed, the historical phenomenon of the movement is an important case study in the evolution of modernism in America, serving as an early example of rupture in the formalist "mainstream."