Birth of the cool : California art, design, and culture at midcentury

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ISBN: 9783791338781
ISBN: 3791338781
Physical Description: print
301 p. . : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 26 x 28 cm.
Publisher: Newport Beach : Orange County Museum of Art ; Munich ; New York : Prestel Art, c 2007.

General Note:	Catalog of an exhibition at Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Calif., Oct. 7, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Feb. 15-Apr. 13, 2008; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, Calif., May 18-August 17, 2008; The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, February 27-May 31, 2009.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p.290-[293]) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.