Paul J. Karlstrom and Susan Ehrlich Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists 1920 - 1956, Barry M. Heisler Introduction Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1990, 1956
Barry M. Heisler Introduction
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"Turning the Tide surveys twenty artists, who between the years of 1920 (the year that Stanton Macdonald-Wright organized Exhibition of Paintings of American Modernists at Exposition Park in Los Angeles) and 1956 (the year preceding the opening of the Ferus Gallery, whose artists, among them Edward Kienholz, Joe Goode, Ed Rusha, and Billy Al Bengston, gained Los Angeles its first international reputation) actively created modernist art in a climate of frighteningly conservative aesthetic taste . . ."