ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE
October 1944
John Entenza [Editor]
John Entenza [Editor]: ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE. Los Angeles: John D. Entenza, Volume 61, number 10, October 1944. Original edition. Slim folio. Stapled printed wrappers. 42 pp. Illustrated text and articles. Cover by Ray Eames. Wrapper panels edgeworn and chipped, with upper corner cat scratched away [see scan]. Textblock slightly affected by scrathing as well. A reference copy.
9.75 x 12.75 vintage magazine with 42 pages of editiorial content and advertisments from leading purveyors of West Coast midcentury modernism, circa 1944. Staff photography by Julis Shulman. Layout and typography by Robin Park.
- articles
- Primitive Music, Folk Art, And Improvisation
- The Los Angeles Museum’s 3rd Group Show: features statements and work by Grace Clements, Ray Eames, Antonin Heythum, Frederick Kann, Gina Knee, Helen Lundeberg, Knud Merrild, and Vincent Ulery.
- The Russian Architect In Wartime
- The “G. I. Bill Of Rights”
- architecture
- Project For A Base Fishery: E. H. Duhart
- Proposed House: Sumner Spaulding
- Postwar Hotel Suite: Arnold Lawrence
- Remodeled Offices: Raphael Soriano
- special features
- Art
- Music in the Cinema
- Books
- Notes in Passing
- Second Annual Architecture Competition
- New Developments
- State Association Of California Architects
- Official Building Industry Directory
- and more.
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.