Funk Book

A history of the artists of the West Coast Funk movement. Features biographies of major Funk artists and a Funk chronology. “Funk the art of the absurd, the ridiculous, the exaggerated…Having roots in Bay Area Abstract Expressionism and San Francisco Beat artists, the essence of the Funk movement was bred in TB-9 (Temporary Building 9) on the University of California, Davis campus. Responding to the New York minimalism and completely rejecting academic style, were concerns of the funk art movement. These California and West Coast artists were strongly influenced by the experimentation of the Beat generation, rejecting the stringent nature of minimalism. Their resulting work was overzealous in pursuit of form, color and subject matter. They were unafraid of making “bad” art in forging new paths of discovery.” - John Natsoulas John Natsoulas, Susan Landauer, Bruce Nixon, Thea Hudson, Garth Johnson, Mark Van Proyen, Sarah Poisner, Patricia Willers