151 pages. Essays by David R. Roediger, Amelia Jones, and Ken Gonzales-Day.

Whiteness: A Wayward Construction

Arts & Photography

Roediger, David R.

Jones, Amelia

Stallings, Tyler

Gonzales-Day, Ken

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Fellows of Contemporary Art

Aridtopia: Essays on Art & Culture from Deserts in the Southwest United States is a literary mirage that fuses present day reality and a future imaginary which repositions our view of the world from that of the desert. Aridtopia explores utopian communities, water rights, the L.A. Aqueduct, and even the desert as a stand-in for the terrain of would-be astronauts to Mars.

Aridtopia: Essays on Art & Culture from Deserts in the Southwest United States

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Blue West Books

- The Great Picture is a history-making gelatin silver photograph three stories high by eleven stories wide- The image was made using a shuttered southern California F-18 jet hanger transformed into an enormous camera obscura—the largest camera ever madeSix accomplished photographers—Jerry Burchfield, Mark Chamberlain, Jacques Garnier, Rob Johnson, Douglas McCulloh, and Clayton Spada—known as The Legacy Project, aided by 400 artists, experts, and volunteers, transformed an abandoned southern California F-18 jet hangar, located atthe Marine Corps Air Station El Toro (MCAS El Toro) in Orange County, into the largest camera ever made and then proceeded to produce the world’s largest photograph, The Great Picture. The image is an enormous panoramic landscape of the California desert beyond the air station, which isdestined to become the heart of the Orange County Great Park.On July 12, 2006, The Legacy Project unveiled the world's largest photograph at a special reception held inside the world's largest camera. It has been exhibited only twice since then during a short viewing at Art Center College of Design, South Campus Wind Tunnel, Pasadena, California in 2007,and most recently this past winter at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. However, for the first time, Sweeney Art Gallery/Culver Center’s presentation of The Great Picture will be accompanied by additional components that explore details behind its making and those who made itpossible.The Legacy Project has shown their work in more than 30 exhibitions in the United States and abroad. The Legacy Project will continue to work through 2017 as El Toro is transformed into the Orange County Great Park.

The Great Picture: Making the World’s Largest Photograph

Lucy R., Lippard

Hassett, Dawn

History & Criticism

Hudson Hills

<p>Southern California's pool culture is the subject of this unique and luscious collection of photographs that explore the parallel evolution of an iconic symbol and an artistic genre. Since the end of World War II, Southern California's backyard pools-those blue-green oases in an otherwise often arid landscape-have symbolized any number of American ideals: optimism, wealth, consumerism, escape, physical beauty, and the triumph of man over nature. Simultaneously, the field of photography developed as a transformative method for recording the human condition. This exhibition catalog celebrates the nexus of these two phenomena in a one-of-a-kind collection that features more than two hundred works by more than forty postwar artists and photographers. It presents works by photographers and artists including Bill Anderson, John Baldessari, Ruth Bernhard, David Hockney, Herb Ritts, Ed Ruscha, Julius Shulman, and Larry Sultan. Thematically grouped into topics ranging from the rise of celebrity culture, suburbia and dystopia, avant-garde architectural landscape design, and the cult of the body, these images offer a reich study of the cultural connotations of the swimming pool. six insightful essays provide a comprehensive overview of the development of the swimming pool and its attendant aesthetic and social culture.</p>

Backyard Oasis: The Swimming Pool in Southern California Photography, 1945-1982

Atkins, Robert

Hebdige, Dick

Stearns, Robert

A. Watts, Jennifer

Individual Artists

Prestel USA

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