Research Catalog

Earthquakes, mudslides, fires & riots : California & graphic design, 1936-1986

Title: Earthquakes, mudslides, fires & riots : California & graphic design, 1936-1986 / Louise Sandhaus ; with contributions by Denise Gonzales Crisp, Lorraine Wild, Michael Worthington.
Author: Sandhaus, Louise, 1955-
Publication: New York, NY : Metropolis Books, [2014]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JQF 15-120	Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

Details

Additional Authors

Description

415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Alternative Title

Earthquakes, mudslides, fires and riots

Subject

Commercial art > California > History > 20th century
Design > California > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Greetings from the left coast! / Louise Sandhaus -- Sunbaked modernism. Introduction: The sun went to their heads -- Diagram: Influences & intersections: sunbaked modernists -- Essay: "Forward into the past!" / Lorraine Wild -- Reprint: "California modern" / Alvin Lustig -- Excerpt: "Merle Armitage: his many loves and varied lives" / Ward Ritchie, 1982 -- The work -- Industry & the indies. Introduction: For your viewing pleasure -- Diagram: Influences & intersections: the indies and the industry -- Essay: "Out of time: how to make motion graphics in Southern California" / Michael Worthington -- Reprint: "The artist as design scientist" / Gene Youngblood, 1970 -- Reprint: "Animation mechanisms" / John Whitney, 1971 -- Excerpt: "Robert Abel: video surrealist" / Jeffery Altshuler, 1975 -- The work -- Sixties alt sixties. Introduction: The counterculture was never what it used to be -- Diagram: Influences & the intersections: the alternative sixties -- Essay: "Orange" / Lorraine Wild -- Document: "Immaculate Heart College Art Department rules," 1965/1968 -- Cover: CA, 1967 -- Excerpt: "Rock posters" / Dubald Stermer, 1967 -- Excerpt: "Communications," Whole Earth catalog, 1970 -- Excerpt: "California Institute of the Arts: prologue to a community," Arts in society / Walt Disney and Robert W. Corrigan, 1970 -- California girls. Introduction: View from the broads -- Diagram: Influences & intersections: California girls -- Essay: "Water and power" / Denise Gonzales Crisp -- Excerpt: daisy with all the petals yes / Sister Corita Kent, 1966 -- Excerpt: "No, kid, make it happy!" / Dugald Stermer, 1971 -- Excerpt: "A feminist option" / Rose Deneve, 1976 -- The work.

Call Number

JQF 15-120

ISBN

9781938922619
1938922611

LCCN

2014043148

OCLC

894670661

Author

Sandhaus, Louise, 1955- author.

Title

Earthquakes, mudslides, fires & riots : California & graphic design, 1936-1986 / Louise Sandhaus ; with contributions by Denise Gonzales Crisp, Lorraine Wild, Michael Worthington.

Publisher

New York, NY : Metropolis Books, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Crisp, Denise Gonzales, contributor.

Wild, Lorraine, contributor.

Worthington, Michael, contributor.

Research Call Number

JQF 15-120

View in Legacy Catalog