This companion volume to the exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers in-depth, illustrated essays on the making of California culture in the twentieth century. Written by a stellar cast of art historians and scholars in the humanities, the essays look closely at the forces that shaped fine art and material culture in California. The contributors weave their subjects around themes that are central to the milestone exhibition: the California landscape—both the natural and built environments—and the state's cultural and political relationships with Latin America and Asia.These provocative essays cover topics such as counterculture architecture, Watts Towers, border culture, identity and gender issues, the role of schools in California art, auto tourism, Hollywood, music, Beat culture, politics, literature, photography, and much more. Accessibly written and intellectually engaging, these essays sharpen our understanding of California in the twentieth century and bring together many diverse, yet interrelated, aspects of its art and culture. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity,1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The horrifying mutilation murder of a young servant girl from a nearby estate in the Peak District draws author-turned-sleuth Jane Austen into a terrifying mystery that could lead her into a perilous search for a possible madman or into the mysterious secrets of Freemasonry. By the author of Jane and the Genius of Place.

In Jane Austen's most fearsome and festive outing thus far, the nineteenth-century author and amateur sleuth attends a masquerade ball that could lead either to the demise of her reputation, or the end of her life. Reprint. NYT.

When a carriage accident leads to a stay at a local country manor, Jane is drawn to the handsome yet mysterious Mr. Geoffrey Sidmouth, but when a murder occurs, all clues point to Mr. Sidmouth, who may be a notorious smuggler. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: Highlights the visual art, films, theater, and architecture of German Expressionism.

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Product Description: MysteryLarge Print EditionJanes narrative voice stays coolly crisp and witty, never losing its clarity of style and authenticity of tone, even in nerve-racking moments of excitement. New York TimesWorthy of its origins, this book is a delight...read more

Commemorates the exhibition (view table of contents)

Product Description: German Expressionism, one of the most significant movements of early European modernism, was an enormously powerful element in Germany's cultural life from the end of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Third Reich. While the movement embraced such diverse artists as E...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the reconstructed exhibit of degenerate art censored by the Nazis in 1937 (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Barron, Stephanie, Davis, Bruce

Looks at the development of the Expressionist movement, profiles leading artists, and shows examples of paintings, prints, and sculpture

Offering a look at the artist's life and multifaceted career, this volume contain's more than three hundred reproductions of Hockney's art--more than half in full-color--and seven essays by distinguished critics and artist friends

Product Description: Lavishly illustrated and fully documented catalog for a major traveling exhibition of German Expressionist masterworks by sculptors ranging from Ernst Barlach to Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Kathe Kollwitz.