CALIFORNIA ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
August 1942
John Entenza [Editor]
John Entenza [Editor]: CALIFORNIA ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE. Los Angeles: Western States Publishing Co., Volume 59, number 7, August 1942. Original edition. Slim folio. Stapled printed wrappers. 40 pp. Illustrated text and articles. Mario Corbett model on the cover. Mailing address typed on rear 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 40 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
- How To Beat Hitler: Vice President Henry A. Wallace
- South American Caravan: Walt Disney Silly Symphonies Go South
- Music At War: Annemarie Ewing
- Architecture
- House: Rodney Walker
- Hotel Room Interiors: Paul László
- House: John Ekin Dinwiddie
- Community Project: Richard J. Neutra
- Rose Hill Courts Housing Project
- Modern Weaving: Maria Kipp
- Special Features
- Art
- Books
- Music
- Shop-Wise: Greta Magnusson, etc.
- 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.