This volume published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying an array of fine art and material culture, this book challenges us to re-examine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. This volume is a delight throughout, both in image and in text, and should appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California. Drawn from the exhibition, which gathers ...
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This volume published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying an array of fine art and material culture, this book challenges us to re-examine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. This volume is a delight throughout, both in image and in text, and should appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California. Drawn from the exhibition, which gathers more than 1,200 artworks and pieces of ephemera from many public and private collections, this book is an image-driven look at the past century, featuring more than 400 works in a range of media, from painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, and photographs to furniture, fashion, and film. It also includes more th a150 cultural artifacts such as tourist brochures, posters, labour union tracts, personal letters, and government reports that convey the richness and complexity of 20th century California. Arranged by theme, these objects take us on a visual tour of a state that was promoted as a bountiful paradise early in the century; as a glamour capital by Hollywood i
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May have some shelf-wear due to normal use. Your purchase funds free job training and education in the greater Seattle area. Thank you for supporting Goodwill's nonprofit mission!
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Fine/Fine. Folio-over 12"-15" tall 0520227646 A nice tight copy. Due to the size and weight of this book, it cannot be shipped outside the United States.
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564 illustrations, with 402 in full color. 352pp. Thick 4to, pictorial boads, d.w. Berkeley: University of California Press, (2000). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. With essays by Stephanie Barron, Sher Bernstein, Michael Dear, Howard N. Fox, and Richard Rodriguez.
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Fine in Fine jacket. University of California Press, 2000. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Well-kept, clean & tight. Pages are stiff and unopened. More 400 art reproductions. Tiny ding at lower spine tip, but else like new. Opaque jacket nice & crisp, with just a touch of wear at tips. HEAVY book. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library..
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VG (May have marks from previous gallery owner. ) Color illustrated wraps, French flaps, 351 pp. Numerous bw photographs and illustrations. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2000-2001 exhibitions. Features in-depth illustrated essays on the making of California culture in the 20th century. Profusely illustrated and well-written. Extensive Bibliography and Index.
