Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association
The first book-length study of the Rat Bastard Protective Association — artists who lived and worked at 2322 Fillmore Street in mid-century San Francisco. Awarded the Wyeth Foundation for American Art publication grant and the Meiss/Mellon Author's Book Award.
"A fascinating history of that far-out and foundational era." Lauren O'Neill-Butler
"Richly detailed…. Aukeman has written eloquently and thoroughly about the milieu in which this iconoclastic group of artists, poets, musicians, and publishers thrived." Hyperallergic
"Fills a real void in the literature, not only on Bruce Conner and the cultural and intellectual context within which he worked for half a century, but on other remarkable artists in his milieu." Kristine Stiles
"The author has done astonishingly thorough research in very scattered materials to put together the most comprehensive account of the artists, the group activities, the gallery scene, and the whole avant-garde art world of San Francisco in this period." Bruce Robertson
