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Author Armstrong, Elizabeth, 1952-

Title Birth of the cool : California art, design, and culture at midcentury / Elizabeth Armstrong ; with essays by Michael Boyd ... [and others] ; with contributions by Anna Brouwer, Mary Trent
Published Newport Beach : Orange County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : Prestel Art, [2007]
©2007

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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.
Arts, American -- California -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
Design -- California -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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
California -- Social life and customs -- 20th century http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85018895 -- Exhibitions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001275
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Author Boyd, Michael.
Brouwer, Anna, 1973-
Trent, Mary, 1981-
Addison Gallery of American Art.
Blanton Museum of Art.
Oakland Museum of California.
Orange County Museum of Art (Calif.)
LC no. 2007932874
ISBN 3791338781
9783791338781
Other Titles California art, design, and culture at midcentury