''Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980: An Illustrated History'' is a 1985 nonfiction book by art critic Thomas Albright, about the modern history of art in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was published by the University of California Press.

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Albright covers the movements in modern art in which the Bay Area were heavily involved, and their practitioners, including Clyfford Still and

Abstract Expressionism Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

, the Modernist school, Pop Art, Formalism, The Bay Area Figurative Movement, Conceptual art,

Photorealism Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be ...

, and others. The book contains numerous reproductions of the works discussed.

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