Lyle Massey delivers the opening remarks to the “The Fabricated American Desert: Modern & Anti-Modern”, held at The Huntington on April 15–16, 2016. Massey is Professor of Art History at University of California, Irvine.

Lyle Massey delivers the opening remarks to the “The Fabricated American Desert: Modern &amp; Anti-Modern”, held at The Huntington on April 15–16, 2016. Massey is Professor of Art History at University of California, Irvine.

Opening Remarks by Lyle Massey

The southwestern desert has long stood for American individualism, modernist and anti-modernist sentiments, and social and political experiments. As such it has attracted artistic and architectural movements that give form to these ideas. This conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the relationship between desert extremes and the built environment.

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Opening Remarks by Lyle Massey

Opening Remarks by Lyle Massey