CALIFORNIA ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
June 1942
John Entenza [Editor]
John Entenza [Editor]: CALIFORNIA ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE. Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., Volume 59, number 6, June 1942. Original edition. Slim folio. Stapled printed wrappers. 56 pp. Illustrated text and articles. Peter Stackpole “Construction of the great San Francisco bridges” photograph to cover. Mailing address typed on front panel. Faint “30/“ to front panel. Wrappers lightly rubbed and worn with faint vertical crease [from mailing], but a very good copy.
9.75 x 12.75 vintage magazine with 56 pages of editorial content and advertisements from leading purveyors of West Coast midcentury modernism, circa 1942. Layout and typography by Robin Park. Primary photography by Julius Shulman.
- Articles
- George Grosz, Voice Of Protest
- Psychology Of Island Peoples: Pryns Hopkins
- Metropolitan Rehabilitation
- Rayogram: full-page image by Man Ray
- Architecture
- Four Minimum Dwellings: Rodney Walker
- House: John Lautner
- Apartment: John I. Matthias
- House: Raphael Soriano
- Industrial Supplement: Golden Gate & Bay Bridges, Albert F. Roller, William Wilson Wurster, etc.
- Crafts: California Craftsmen, including Beatrice Woods, Alyne Whalen, Bernice Polifka, Vreni Wawri, Allen Adler
- Furniture: Pacific Modern by Barker Brothers
- Special Features
- Art
- Books
- Music
- Shop-Wise
- Notes in Passing
- Products and Practices
Editorial Associates for Arts and Architecture included Herbert Matter and Charles Eames. Julius Shulman was the staff photographer. The Editorial Advisory Board included William Wilson Wurster,Richard Neutra, Isamu Noguchi, eero Saarinen, Gardner Dailey, Sumner Spaulding, Mario Corbett, Esther McCoy, John Funk, Gregory Ain, George Nelson, Gyorgy Kepes, marcel Breuer, Raphael Soriano, Ray Eames, Garret Eckbo, Edgar Kaufman, Jr. and others luminaries of the mid-century modern movement.
In 1938, John Entenza joined California Arts and Architecture magazine as editor. By 1943, Entenza and his art director Alvin Lustig had completely overhauled the magazine and renamed it Arts and Architecture. Arts and Architecture championed all that was new in the arts, with special emphasis on emerging modernist architecture in Southern California.
One of the pivotal figures in the growth of modernism in California, Entenza's most lasting contribution was his sponsorship of the Case Study Houses project, which featured the works of architects Thornton Abell, Conrad Buff, Calvin Straub, Donald Hensman, Charles Eames, Eero Saarinen, J. R. Davidson, A. Quincy Jones, Frederick Emmons, Don Knorr, Edward Killinsworth, Jules Brady, Waugh Smith, Pierre Koenig, Kemper Nomland, Kemper Nomland Jr., Richard Neutra, Ralph Rapson, Raphael Soriano, Whitney Smith, Sumner Spaulding, John Rex, Rodney Walker, William Wilson Wurster, Theodore Bernardi and Craig Ellwood. Arts and Architecture also ran articles and interviews on artists and designers such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, George Nakashima, George Nelson and many other groundbreakers.