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1 Barron, Stephanie, and Bernstein, Sheri, and Fort, Ilene Susan (Joint Editors) Reading California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000 Los Angeles and Berkeley Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press 2000 0520227670 / 9780520227675 Soft Cover NEW Exhibition Catalogue  415 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 25 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Made in California" held Oct. 22, 2000-Mar. 18, 2001. BRAND NEW. Shrinkwrapped. "This companion volume to the exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers in-depth, illustrated essays on the making of California culture in the twentieth century. Written by a stellar cast of art historians and scholars in the humanities, the essays look closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. The contributors weave their subjects around themes that are central to the milestone exhibition: the California landscape--both the natural and built environments--and the state's cultural and political relationships with Latin America and Asia. These provocative essays cover topics such as counterculture architecture, Watts Towers, border culture, identity and gender issues, the role of schools in California art, auto tourism, Hollywood, music, Beat culture, politics, literature, photography, and much more. Accessibly written and intellectually engaging, these essays sharpen our understanding of California in the twentieth century and bring together many diverse, yet interrelated, aspects of its art and culture. / Stephanie Barron is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice President of Education and Public Programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Sheri Bernstein is Exhibition Associate. Ilene Susan Fort is Curator of American Art. Howard N. Fox is Curator of Contemporary Art. Michael Dear is Director of the University of Southern California's Southern California Studies Center and author most recently of The Postmodern Urban Condition (2000). Richard Rodriguez is author of Days of Obligation (1992) and Hunger of Memory (1982), and is a frequent contributor to Harper's, The New York Times, and The News Hour on PBS." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Carey McWilliam's California: The light and the Dark, by Kevin Starr; Altered state(s): California Art and the Inner World, by Ilene Susan Fort; Landscapes of Consumption: Auto Tourism and Visual Culture in California, 1920-1940, by John Ott; California Welcomes the World : International Expositions, 1894-1940 and the Selling of a State, by Carolyn Peter; Art School Sketches: Notes on the Central Role of Schools in California Art and Culture, by Paul J. Karlstrom; All about Eden, by Blake Allmendinger; California through the Lens of Hollywood, by Dana Polan; Music, Migration, and Myth: The California Connection, by George Lipsitz; On Location: The Placement (and Replacement) of California in 1930s Photography, by Sally Stein; Crooning Kings and Dancing Queens: San Francisco's Chinatown and the Forbidden City Theater, by Anthony W. Lee; "Shocking 'Beat' Art Displayed": California Artists and the Beat Image, by John P. Bowles; Alternative Shelter: Counterculture Architecture in Northern California, by Margaret Crawford; Dreamworks: A Concept of Concept Art in California, by Howard N. Fox; A Place in the Sun: The Los Angeles Art World and the New Global Context, by Lynn Zelevansky; Manzanar Inside and Out: Photo Documentation of the Japanese Wartime Incarceration, by Karin Higa and Tim B. Wride; The Art of Political Engagement, by Peter Selz; From Beats to Borders: An Alternative History of Chicano Art in California, by Chon A. Noriega; Picturing the Watts Towers: The Art and Politics of an Urban Landmark, by Sarah Schrank; Gold Fevers: Global L.A. and the Noir Imaginary, by Norman M. Klein.  Price: 49.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart