About the Author

Peter Plagens is a painter, art critic at Newsweek, and contributing editor at Artforum. He has taught art at the University of Southern California and California State University, Northridge, and he was Professor and Chairman of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of a novel, Time for Robo (1999).

Reviews

"There have been good book surveys of California art, led off more than 20 years ago by Peter Plagens' "Sunshine Muse"--"Time"