Lives of the Imaginary Artists in Cold War California - Monica Steinberg

How artists created fictionalized identities to realize works that resisted political overreach and art historical conventions. Â This book explores how a group of real California artists created imaginary artists, engaging with the political climate of the Cold War era and frustrating the discipline of art history. They employed pseudonymity, obfuscation, anonymity, (auto)biografiction, imaginary portraiture, heteronymity, role-playing, doubling, and alter ego. Often laced with humor, these exploits... Zobrazit více