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.
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| Language: | English |
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Newport Beach : Munich ; New York :
Orange County Museum of Art ; Prestel Art,
[2007], ©2007.
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| Physical Description: | 301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 28 cm |
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California art, design, and culture at midcentury. |
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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.