Description |
301 pages . : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 28 cm |
Contents |
Foreword / Dennis Szakacs -- Acknowledgments -- The square and the cool : California art, design, and culture at midcentury / Elizabeth Armstrong -- Domestic cool : modern architecture and its image in southern California / Elizabeth A.T. Smith -- Hard-edge cool / Frances Colpitt -- Making the scene : West Coast modernism and the movies / Bruce Jenkins -- Cool on cool : William Claxton and the way the music looked / Dave Hickey -- Formal, cool, dense : graphic design in Los Angeles at midcentury / Lorraine Wild -- The migration of modernism : from turn-of-the-century Vienna to midcentury Los Angeles / Michael Boyd -- Cold War cool / Thomas Hine -- 1959 : a snapshot of midcentury culture / Anna Brouwer and Mary Trent -- Selected texts and documents |
Notes |
Catalog of an exhibition at Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, October 7, 2007-January 6, 2008; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, February 15-April 13, 2008; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, May 18-August 17, 2008; The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, February 27-May 31, 2009 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-[293]) and index |
Subject |
Art, American -- California -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Arts, American -- California -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Design -- California -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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SUBJECT |
California -- Civilization http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2018001220 -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012476 -- Exhibitions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001275
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California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018895 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001275
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Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Author |
Boyd, Michael.
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Brouwer, Anna, 1973-
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Trent, Mary, 1981-
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Addison Gallery of American Art.
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Blanton Museum of Art.
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Oakland Museum of California.
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Orange County Museum of Art (Calif.)
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LC no. |
2007932874 |
ISBN |
3791338781 |
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9783791338781 |
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