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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 cast of art historians and scholars in the humanities, the essays look closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. The contributors weave their subjects around themes that are central to the milestone exhibition: the California landscape--both the natural and built environments--and the state's cultural and political relationships with Latin America and Asia.
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Overview

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 cast of art historians and scholars in the humanities, the essays look closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. The contributors weave their subjects around themes that are central to the milestone exhibition: the California landscape--both the natural and built environments--and the state's cultural and political relationships with Latin America and Asia.
These provocative essays cover topics such as counterculture architecture, Watts Towers, border culture, identity and gender issues, the role of schools in California art, auto tourism, Hollywood, music, Beat culture, politics, literature, photography, and much more. Accessibly written and intellectually engaging, these essays sharpen our understanding of California in the twentieth century and bring together many diverse, yet interrelated, aspects of its art and culture.

Editorial Reviews

San Diego Union-Tribune
"The stimulating essays in Reading California provide both a broad and detailed look at the nature of California art-from painting, photography and film to literature and the counterculture music that so ignited the 1960s.
Library Journal
One of the most ambitious art shows the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has ever mounted, the recent "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000" came with all the marketing trimmings, such as mugs, mouse pads, and a music CD (predictably containing tracks like "Valley Girl" and "California Dreamin' "). The two books that accompany the exhibition stand out, however, as especially edifying adornments to the marquee. Each book in its own way addresses the question, "What contribution has California made to the world's visual culture in the last 100 years?" The catalog presents more than 500 illustrations documenting the largest art exhibition ever mounted surveying California art and culture, a show comprising over 1200 examples of art and ephemera in a wide range of media. Opening with the words "Which California? Whose California?" the book demonstrates that the Golden State's image is of a contested Eden. Apart from being the capital of the film and television industries (a fact underemphasized in this catalog), the state has become identified with several iconographic threads that are herein extensively and entertainingly illustrated. The exhibition has come under blistering criticism for ignoring aesthetic considerations while epitomizing a trend among curators to blur the boundaries between artworks and historical artifacts. While at times this tendency results in the sublime sitting next to the ridiculous (e.g., a Frida Kahlo masterpiece shares space with a 1940s model wearing a sombrero-themed swimsuit), we also see outstanding art within a historic and geographic context from which it ordinarily is quite divorced. Also, a show this size inevitably exposes the works of lesser-known artists. Thus, along with the de rigueur Diebenkorns and Ansel Adams, we are treated to the work of countless other, lesser-known artists such as John Marshall Gamble and Enrique Chagoya, to name two separated by almost a century. Reading California collects 19 scholars' descriptions of different aspects of California's cultural identity, viewing each as elements of larger mythical notions of the state. The individual authors cover a broad range of topics, from the birth of auto tourism to "Beat Art." Most interesting are an essay by state librarian Kevin Starr describing the seminal influence of Angelino historian Carey McWilliams upon the state's self-image, a telling analysis of the important role played by art schools in fostering culture, and Peter Selz's succinct study of West Coast political art. This erudite composite history is recommended for academic and large public libraries; the fine catalog to this important exhibition is highly recommended for all collections. Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L., CA Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780520227675
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publication date: 1/15/2001
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 415
  • Sales rank: 892,193
  • Product dimensions: 6.75 (w) x 9.75 (h) x 1.13 (d)

Meet the Author

Stephanie Barron
Stephanie Barron

Stephanie Barron is Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice President of Education and Public Programs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Sheri Bernstein is Exhibition Associate. Ilene Susan Fort is Curator of American Art. Howard N. Fox is Curator of Contemporary Art. Michael Dear is Director of the University of Southern California's Southern California Studies Center and author most recently of The Postmodern Urban Condition (2000). Richard Rodriguez is author of Days of Obligation (1992) and Hunger of Memory (1982), and is a frequent contributor to Harper's, The New York Times,and The News Hour on PBS.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments 7
Carey McWilliams's California: The Light and the Dark 15
Altered State(s): California Art and the Inner World 31
Landscapes of Consumption: Auto Tourism and Visual Culture in California, 1920-1940 51
California Welcomes the World: International Expositions, 1894-1940, and the Selling of a State 69
Art School Sketches: Notes on the Central Role of Schools in California Art and Culture 85
All About Eden 113
California through the Lens of Hollywood 129
Music, Migration, and Myth: The California Connection 153
On Location: The Placement (and Replacement) of California in 1930s Photography 171
Crooning Kings and Dancing Queens: San Francisco's Chinatown and the Forbidden City Theater 199
"Shocking 'Beat' Art Displayed": California Artists and the Beat Image 221
Alternative Shelter: Counterculture Architecture in Northern California 249
Dreamworks: A Concept of Concept Art in California 273
A Place in the Sun: The Los Angeles Art World and the New Global Context 293
Manzanar Inside and Out: Photo Documentation of the Japanese Wartime Incarceration 315
The Art of Political Engagement 339
From Beats to Borders: An Alternative History of Chicano Art in California 353
Picturing the Watts Towers: The Art and Politics of an Urban Landmark 373
Gold Fevers: Global L. A. and the Noir Imaginary 389
Index 410

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