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Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond
by Peter Selz  Publisher Comments Art of Engagement takes the first comprehensive look at the key role of California's art and artists in politics and culture since 1945. Tracing the remarkably fertile confluence of political agitation and passionately engaged art, Peter Selz leads...
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California, Here I Come (Icon)
by Icons Publisher Comments This book presents a delightful selection of vintage graphic designs extolling the virtues of sunny California, the land where dreams come true....
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Bay Area Figurative Art
by Caroline A Jones Publisher Comments During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed...
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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...
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Catalog L.A.: Birth of an Art Capital 1955-1985
by Catherine Grenier Synopsis In the latter half of the twentieth century, Los Angeles took off as an international art capital. "Catalog L.A." presents a comprehensive timeline of the burgeoning art scene that reflected the city's m lange of pop culture, celebrity, and political...
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Eden's Edge: Fifteen L.A. Artists
by Gary Garrels Publisher Comments Published to accompany the Hammer Museum's Summer 2007 exhibition, Eden's Edge, this exploration of art made in Los Angeles during the past decade crosses generations, mediums, and materials to link 15 artists of singular personal vision, whether...
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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...
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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...
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State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work
by Barbara Isenberg Synopsis If California is a state of mind, Barbara Isenberg's interviews with more than fifty of California's prominent painters, writers, composers, architects, directors, and performers help explain why. I find great delight in reading this book, and in the...
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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...
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Made in California
by Stephanie Barron Synopsis Made in California, 1900-2000: Art, Image, and Identity charts the arts and conceptions of California during the last century. This lavish exhibition catalogue applies an interdisciplinary approach while examining themes of California's landscape and its...
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Local Color: The di Rosa Collection of Contemporary California Art
by Rene Di Rosa Publisher Comments Rene di Rosa began collecting art in the '60s and displaying it at his gorgeous vineyard estate in the California Napa Valley. In 1997, his home, renamed the di Rosa Preserve, opened to the public, showcasing more than 1,500 works by hundreds of...
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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...
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Art of the Gold Rush
by Janice T Driesbach Publisher Comments The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill...
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Art of the Gold Rush
by Janice To Driesbach Synopsis The California Gold Rush captured the get-rich dreams of people around the world more completely than almost any event in American history. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill...
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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...
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Art in Residence: West Coast Artists and Their Space
by Kurt Edwar Fishback Synopsis When you think of Ansel Adams, what comes to mind? An image of the man, or the photographic landscapes that have become the essence of his name? Probably the latter, which is why Kurt Fishback's Art in Residence is such a beautiful revelation. In his...
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Utopia & Dissent Art Poetry & Politics I
by Richa Candida Smith Publisher Comments A landmark study of California's visual arts and poetry, 1925 to 1975, Utopia and Dissent demonstrates the profound influence this regional culture had on American art and thought. Combining intellectual and cultural history, it traces the spread of...
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Picturing Chinatown
by Anthony W Lee Publisher Comments This visually and intellectually exciting book brings the history of San Francisco's Chinatown alive by taking a close look at images of the quarter created during its first hundred years, from 1850 to 1950. Picturing Chinatown contains more than 160...
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Paintings of California
by Arnold Skolnick Publisher Comments California embodies the American desire to explore frontiers. Collected here in Paintings of California are the works of more than sixty of America's finest artists, all of whom were drawn to the beauty of California's kaleidoscopic geography and the...
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