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	1 Barron, Stephanie, and Bernstein, Sheri, and Fort, Ilene Susan Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 Los Angeles and Berkeley Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press 2000 0520227654 / 9780520227651 Soft Cover Very Good Exhibition Catalogue  351 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio., index; 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Superficial dampstain at the end (slight ripple; pages don't stick). OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, Made in California challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout--both in image and in text--and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California. Drawn from the exhibition, which gathers more than 1,200 artworks and pieces of ephemera from many public and private collections, Made in California is an image-driven look at the past century, featuring more than 400 works in a range of media, from painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs to furniture, fashion, and film. The book also includes more than 150 cultural artifacts such as tourist brochures, posters, labor union tracts, personal letters, and government reports that convey the richness and complexity of twentieth-century California. Arranged provocatively by theme, these objects take us on a visual tour of a state that was promoted as a bountiful paradise early in the century as a glamour capital by Hollywood in the 1920s and 1930s as a suburban utopia in the late '40s and '50s as a haven for counterculture in the '60s and '70s, and as a multicultural frontier in the '80s and '90s. The book's exploration of how these themes were reflected and contested in California's visual culture deepens our understanding of the state's artistic traditions as well as its fascinating history. The volume is divided into five twenty-year sections, each including a narrative essay discussing the history of that era and highlighting topics particularly relevant to its visual culture. Two overarching themes emerge that have been crucial for how we imagine and understand California: first, the landscape, including both the natural and built environment, and second, the multifaceted relationships California has had with Latin America and Asia. Geographer Michael Dear has contributed a sweeping overview of the social history of California that examines the vibrant and sometimes turbulent conditions out of which the culture emerged. Essayist Richard Rodriguez closes the volume with a uniquely personal meditation on the Golden State. / 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.  Price: 59.95 USD Add to Shopping Cart
	2 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