A Seed Of Modernism: the Los Angeles Art Students League, 1906-1953.(Book review)

California History | December 22, 2008| | Copyright

A SEED OF MODERNISM: THE LOS ANGELES ART STUDENTS LEAGUE, 1906-1953

By Will South, Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, and Julia Armstrong-Totten, foreword by Wesley Jessup (Berkeley Pasadena Museum of California Art/Heyday Books, 2008, 160 pp., illus., $24.95 paper)

THE LOS ANGELES ART WORLD benefited from the post-World War II economic boom in ways that obscure the larger history of visual art within the cultural landscape of southern California. Factors such as the rapid growth of art schools due to the impact of the GI Bill, the role of Hollywood's marketing of ...

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