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The Ferus Gallery by Kristine Mckenna Publisher Comments In 1950s California, and especially in Los Angeles, there existed few venues for contemporary art. To a whole generation of California artists, this presented a freedom, since the absence of a context for their work meant that they could coin their own... (read more) Your price: $59.95 New - Hardcover 
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California Biennial by Karen Jacobson Synopsis From the publishers of the hit exhibition catalogue Girls Night Out comes the Orange County Museum of Art's companion to the 2006 California Biennial, celebrating 31 of the most exciting emerging artists based in California today. The California Biennial... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $13.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Picturing Chinatown by Anthony W Lee Publisher Comments Lee examines a little-known, but striking, body of visual images and image-makers associated with San Francisco's Chinatown in its first 100 years, from 1850 to 1950. In so doing, he integrates insights and literature from the disparate fields of art... (read more) List Price $59.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Ferus by Ealan Wingate Synopsis Under the seminal direction of Irving Blum, Ferus Gallery quickly became one of the leading galleries on the West Coast, showing important and groundbreaking works--including Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans, Roy Lichtenstein's Drowning Girl, and Ed... (read more) Your price: $55.00 New - Hardcover
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Large Art in Small Places: Discovering the California Mural Towns by Kevin Bruce Publisher Comments A Colorful Journey throughSmall Towns with Epic Art In the 1930s, film star (and part Cherokee) Will Rogers would come to Bishop, California, and buy the Native American children ice cream at the local pharmacy soda fountain, at a time when they weren't... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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California Impressionists by Susan Landauer Publisher Comments The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Made in California by Stephanie Barron Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Botanica Los Angeles by Patrick Arthur Polk Book News Annotation Associated with an exhibition of the same name at the UCLA Fowler Museum, this book examines the Latino botanica, stores that sell charms, herbs, potions and ritual items, and cater to all kinds of physical, spiritual and religious needs. Polk (world... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Eden's Edge: Fifteen L.A. Artists by Gary Garrels Publisher Comments Artwork by Mark Bradford, Liz Craft. Contributions by Gary Garrels.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Hardcover
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California Video: Artists and Histories by Glenn Phillips Publisher Comments Published to accompany a landmark exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from March 15 through June 18, 2008, California Video presents the first comprehensive survey of the history of video art in California. Since the late 1960s, California... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $25.95 Used - Hardcover
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Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art by Dan Nadel Publisher Comments Overspray is the conclusive account of the rise of airbrush art, and of the equally bright and glossy Los Angeles culture alongside which it came to prominence in the 1970s. Inspired by surf graphics, psychadelia and the slick shine of Hollywood, a... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $40.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Birth of the Cool by Elizabeth Armstrong Publisher Comments Miles Davis's seminal recording, known as "Birth of the Cool", is the starting point for this colorful, multi-disciplinary journey through 1950s West Coast America. 1950s West Coast style exuded "cool": from the smooth, hypnotic strains of a Miles Davis... (read more) Your price: $65.00 New - Hardcover
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Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 by Stephanie Barron Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of the State: California (Art of the State) by Nancy Friedman Publisher Comments This colorful new series of useful, compact books celebrates the essence of each of the 50 United States. Each book pictures and describes whatever is exceptional about a state and profiles the explorers, artists, writers, and personalities who shaped... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s by Cecile Whiting Publisher Comments Andy Warhol said about his road trip to Los Angeles in 1963: The farther West we drove, the more Pop everything looked on the highways. In this original and engaging book, Cecile Whiting examines what Pop looked like when it left the highbrow cloisters... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sterling Ruby Supermax 2008 (Moca Focus) by Philipp Kaiser Publisher Comments Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby, who was born in Germany in 1972, has created an expansive body of collage, video and sculpture using such diffuse materials as fingernail polish, clay and spray paint to tackle received notions of taste and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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State of the Arts by Barbara Isenberg Publisher Comments California has long nourished artists of all kinds: architect Frank Gehry, artist Judy Chicago, musician Don Henley, writer Larry Gelbart, cartoonist Matt Groening, sculptor Robert Graham, actress Carol Burnett, novelist John Rechy, composer George... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $1.95 Used - Hardcover
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Red Eye by Mark Coetzee Publisher Comments The inspiration for this book began at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art with Paul Schimmel's seminal 1992 exhibition Helter Skelter, which introduced to the world the wide-ranging, dissident influence of Los Angeles art. Upon seeing that show... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $20.00 Used - Hardcover
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Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A. by Ali Subotnick Synopsis Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.--an exhibition curated by Ali Subotnick at Los Angeles' Hammer Museum--features nine idiosyncratic Los Angeles-based artists spanning several generations, including Lisa Anne Auerbach, Julie Becker, Llyn Foulkes... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Coastline to Skyline: The Philip H. Greene Gift of California Watercolors, 1930-1960 by Barbara Macadam Publisher Comments The so-called California-style watercolorists, an informal but closely knit group, were most active from the late 1920s through the 1950s. They achieved national recognition for their generally large-scale watercolors painted with broad, saturated washes... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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