Reading California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900–2000

Preface and Acknowledgments Stephanie Barron THE WORLD MET ITSELF IN CALIFORNIA Carey McWilliams's California: The Light and the Dark Kevin Starr Altered State(s): California Art and the Inner World Ilene Susan Fort Landscapes of Consumption: Auto Tourism and Visual Culture in California, 1920–1940 John Ott California Welcomes the World: International Expositions, 1894–1940, and the Selling of a State Carolyn Peter Art School Sketches: Notes on the Central Role of School in California Art and Culture Paul J. Karlstrom WE HAD COME, WITHOUT KNOWING IT, TO OUR INEVITABLE PLACE All About Eden Blake Allmendinger California through the Lens of Hollywood Dana Polan Music, Migration, and Myth: The California Connection George Lipsitz On Location: The Placement (and Replacement) of California in 1930s Photography Sally Stein Crooning Kings and Dancing Queens: San Francisco's Chinatown and the Forbidden City Theater Anthony W. Lee "Shocking 'Beat' Art Displayed": California Artists and the Beat Image John P. Bowles Alternative Shelter: Counterculture Architecture in Northern California Margaret Crawford Dreamworks: A Concept of Concept Art in California A Place in the Sun: The Los Angeles Art World and the New Global Context Lynn Zelevansky HERE... WHERE WE RUN OUT OF CONTINENT Manzanar Inside and Out: Photo Documentation of the Japanese Wartime Incarceration Karin Higa and Tim B. Wride The Art of Political Engagement Peter Selz From Beats to Borders: An Alternative History of Chicano Art in California Chon A. Noriega Picturing the Watts Towers: The Art and Politics of an Urban Landmark Sarah Schrank Gold Fevers: Global L.A. and the Noir Imaginary Norman M. Klein Index