Title & Author:

Reading California : art, image, and identity, 1900-2000 / edited by Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernstein, Ilene Susan Fort ; preface by Stephanie Barron.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Los Angeles County Museum of Art ; Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2000.

Description:

415 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Made in California" held Oct. 22, 2000-Mar. 18, 2001.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 22, 2000-Mar. 18, 2001.
Covers extend to form two additional leaves.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Carey McWilliam's California : the light and the dark / Kevin Starr -- Altered state(s) : California art and the inner world / Ilene Susan Fort -- Landscapes of consumption : auto tourism and visual culture in California, 1920-1940 / John Ott -- California welcomes the world : international expositions, 1894-1940 and the selling of a state / Carolyn Peter -- Art school sketches : notes on the central role of schools in California art and culture / Paul J. Karlstrom -- All about Eden / Blake Allmendinger -- California through the lens of Hollywood / Dana Polan -- Music, migration, and myth : the California connection / George Lipsitz -- On location : the placement (and replacement) of California in 1930s photography / Sally Stein -- Crooning kings and dancing queens : San Francisco's Chinatown and the Forbidden City theater / Anthony W. Lee -- "Shocking 'Beat' art displayed" : California artists and the Beat image / John P. Bowles -- Alternative shelter : counterculture architecture in Northern California / Margaret Crawford -- Dreamworks : a concept of concept art in California / Howard N. Fox -- A place in the sun : the Los Angeles art world and the new global context / Lynn Zelevansky -- Manzanar inside and out : photo documentation of the Japanese wartime incarceration / Karin Higa and Tim B. Wride -- The art of political engagement / Peter Selz -- From beats to borders : an alternative history of Chicano art in California / Chon A. Noriega -- Picturing the Watts Towers : the art and politics of an urban landmark / Sarah Schrank -- Gold fevers : global L.A. and the noir imaginary / Norman M. Klein.

Summary:

A companion volume to the exhibition Made in California: art, image and identity, 1900-2000, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers nineteen in-depth, illustrated essays on the making of California culture in the 20th century.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520227662 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780520227668 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0520227670 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520227675 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Arts, American California 20th century.
Art, American California 20th century.
Art américain Californie 20e siècle.
Californie dans l'art.
Arts américains Californie 20e siècle.
Art, American
Arts, American
Cultuurgeschiedenis.
Arts, American California.
Arts, Modern 20th century California.
California In art.
Californie Dans l'art.
California
1900-1999

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
works of art.
Art
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

Barron, Stephanie, 1950-
Bernstein, Sheri, 1966-
Fort, Ilene Susan.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213846
Call No.: NX510.C2 R4 2000
Status: Available