Sunday, April 3, 2011

Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury



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Miles Davis's seminal recording, known as "Birth of the Cool", is the starting point for this colorful, multi-disciplinary journey through 1950s West Coast America. 1950s West Coast style exuded "cool": from the smooth, hypnotic strains of a Miles Davis riff through Richard Neutra's elegant, modernist residences to the hard-edged paintings of Helen Lundeberg and Karl Benjamin. This richly illustrated volume casts a fresh eye on Fifties West Coast style with illumina... More >>

Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury

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