| On the Edge of America |
| PREFACE |
| INTRODUCTION |
 | PART I THE REGIONAL IMAGINATION |
| • | The Elusive Quest of the Moderns |
 | Painting Under the Shadow: California Modernism and the Second World War |
| • | Politics and Modernism: The Trial of the Rincon Annex Murals |
| PART 2 SOURCES AND TRADITIONS |
| • | The Impact from Abroad: Foreign Guests and Visitors |
| • | Mexican Art and Los Angeles, 1920-1940 |
| PART 3 EXPRESSING A CULTURAL IDENTITY |
| • | Wood Studs, Stucco, and Concrete: Native and Imported Images |
| • | Early Modernism in Southern California: Provincialism or Eccentricity? |
| Journey Into the Sun: California Artists and Surrealism |
| • | Visual Music and Film-As-An-Art Before 1950 |
| Modernist Photography and the Group f.64 |
| APPENDIX: A CHRONOLOGY OF INSTITUTIONS, EVENTS, AND INDIVIDUALS |
| Notes |
| INDEX |
| • | A |
| • | B |
| • | C |
| • | D |
| • | E |
| • | F |
| • | G |
| • | H |
| • | I |
| • | J |
| • | K |
| • | L |
| • | M |
| • | N |
| • | O |
| • | P |
| • | R |
| • | S |
| • | T |
| • | U |
| • | V |
| • | W |
| • | X |
| • | Y |
| • | Z |