Preface and Acknowledgments / Stephanie Barron -- 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 Schools in California Art and Culture / Paul J. Karlstrom -- 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 / Howard N. Fox -- A Place in the Sun: The Los Angeles Art World and the New Global Context / Lynn Zelevansky -- 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
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Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oct. 22, 2000-Mar. 18, 2001