Reading California

Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000

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Edited by Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernstein and Ilene Susan Fort

University of California Press

Due/Published October 2000, 400 pages, paper

ISBN 0520227670

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 group 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 environmentsÑand the state's cultural and political relationships with Latin America and Asia. These 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.

Contributors: Blake Allmendinger, John P. Bowles, Margaret Crawford, Ilene Susan Fort, Howard N. Fox, Karin Higa, Paul J. Karlstrom, Norman M. Klein, Anthony W. Lee, George Lipsitz, Chon A. Noriega, John Ott, Carolyn Peter, Dana Polan, Sarah Schrank, Peter Selz, Kevin Starr, Sally Stein, Tim B. Wride, Lynn Zelevansky