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The California Pop-Up Book [Hardcover]

Frank Gehry (Contributor), David Hockney (Contributor), Carolyn See (Contributor), Keven Starr (Contributor), Dennis Hopper (Contributor), Graham Nash (Contributor)
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Book Description

November 17, 2001
The California Pop-Up Book is a creative exploration of the California experience through 3-D op-ups, pull-outs, booklets, and narratives. Produced jointly by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Universe Publishing on the occasion of the LACMA exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, this extraordinary book highlights the dynamic relationship between the arts and the way the Golden State has been portrayed and conceived in the popular imagination. Whether promoted as the Edenic paradise early in the twentieth century or viewed as a mulitcultural metropolis of the future in our own time, California has exerted a profound fascination the world over for more than a century. Arranged chronologically form the Gold Rush to the Walt Disney Concert Hall (scheduled to open in 2003), this commemorative book will be a keepsake for audiences worldwide.

Filled with an array of surprises, the book features many of California's great treasures fashioned into pop-ups pop-ups, including:

-Balboa Park, San Diego
-Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22, Los Angeles
-Chicano Park, San Diego
-Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
-Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
-Hearst Castle, San Simeon
-The Mission Inn, Riverside
-Sea Ranch, Sonoma County
-Frank O. Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
-Watts Towers, Los Angeles

Other places visited in The California Pop-Up Book:

-Central Avenue, Los Angeles
-Disneyland Park's Tomorrowland, Anaheim
-The Gamble House, Pasadena

Paper engineers have created unique pop-ups and pullouts of original works by California artists:

-David Hockney's Mulholland Drive
-Edward Ruscha's Standard Station
-Robbert Flick's Wilshire Boulevard
-Gilbert "Magu" Lujan's Our Family Car


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"Instant collectible of the month." -- Los Angeles Magazine, November 2001

"It is worth every cent... this is living art to cherish." -- Connie Martinson, Beverly Hills Courier, November 2, 2001

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 14 pages
  • Publisher: Universe (November 17, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789305003
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789305008
  • Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 1.5 x 11.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #803,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Real California - in Three Dimensions, December 2, 2001
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The book looks like it might just be a decorative coffee table item, but the content belies that impression. The pop-ups are fun and attractive, but the real story is in the choice of objects and the writing. The selections speak to the myth of California that was consciously created by early explorers, developers, and movie moguls but became its own reality as people migrated to the state ready to play the roles the myth-makers created for them. In exposing the history through objects and some remarkable writing by such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn See, Graham Nash, Alice Waters, Terry Gilliam, and Richard Rodriguez, the pre-mythic history and the development of a true California culture emerges...one in which the tinsel is a little tarnished around the edges, but glows as brightly as ever with its own special light.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, January 11, 2012
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If you like pop up books this one is a good one to have. Love it. Its not just for kids, its for big kids too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I have lazy eye, October 14, 2005
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Even with lack of proper stereoscopic vision, due to serious lazy eye, the figures appear vivid and dimensional. The book includes a set of postcards that may be sent to taunt the less fortunate who haven't witnessed the wonders herein.
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