C
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene), 214
Cabré, Manuel, 127
Cage, John, 11 , 226 , 282 , 283
Calder, Alexander, 52 , 193 , 276
Calder, Alexander Stirling, 276
California: anti-Mexican bias in, 126 ;
artist émigrés in, 42 ;
eastern perspective on, 1 , 15 n.2, 157 , 159 ;
European influences on, 8 , 10 ;
invented traditions of, 4 , 15 n.3;
isolation of, 13 , 34 , 158 -59, 160 , 166 ;
promotional art of, 92 n.33;
reverence for settlers of, 69 -70, 79 ;
transformation into cosmopolitan center, 34 , 42
California Art Club (Los Angeles; formerly Painters' Club), 275
California Art Research Project, 283
California Arts,275
California Arts and Architecture magazine, 126 , 257 , 284
California Camera Club, 269 n.39;
Camera Craft magazine, 247 , 255 , 257 , 258 -59, 274
California College of Arts and Crafts (Oakland; formerly California School of Arts and Crafts), 275
California Color Society, 227
California Data (Shore), 170
California Graduate School of Design (Pasadena), 283
California Industrial Scenes (Howard), 105
California Landscape (Macdonald-Wright), plate 3
California-Pacific International Exhibition (San Diego), 282
California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco), 102 , 103 , 279 ;
exhibitions of abstract expressionism, 114 -115 (see also specific artists )
California Progressive Group, 277
California School of Arts and Crafts (Oakland; later California College of Arts and Crafts), 275
California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco; formerly Mark Hopkins Institute of Art and San Francisco Institute of Art), 55 -61, 114 , 208 n.64, 277 , 285 ;
antiauthoritarianism ethos at, 57 ;
rejection of surrealist automatism, 202 , 208 n.65
California Society of Artists (San Francisco), 274
California Society of Etchers (San Francisco), 275
California watercolor school, 62
California Watercolor Society (Los Angeles), 278
Callahan, Kenneth, 104
camera clubs, 245 , 267 n.2
Camera Craft magazine, 247 , 255 , 257 , 258 -59, 274
Cándida Smith, Richard, 10
Cannon Art School (Los Angeles), 275
Cantú, Federico, 122
Carey, Paul, 16 n.9
Carmel Art Association, 280
Carmel Arts and Crafts Society, 274
Carmel-by-the-Sea artists' colony, 274
Carmel Institute of Art, 283
cartoon books, 64 n.39
cartoons, 238
Castel, Father Louis-Bertrand, 224
Catholic Church, 75
Centaur Gallery (Hollywood), 134 , 181 , 282
Cézanne, Paul, 108
Chadwick, Whitney, 204 n.9
chance, theme of, 205 n.24, 206 n.41
chaos, theme of, 195
Charlot, Jean, 122 , 123 , 129 , 133 ;
The History of Art from the Mayas to Walt Disney , 132 ;
Luz , 133 ;
Mayan influence on, 132 ;
Ministry of Education murals, 130 ;
Picture Book No. 1 , 133
Bob Chatterton's Film Society, 233
Cheney, Sheldon, 15 n.6
Un Chien Andalou (Dalí and Buñuel, 223
Chinese Revolutionary Artists' Club (San Francisco), 279
Chirico, Giorgio de, 183 -84;
exhibition at Stendahl Art Galleries, 281
Chouinard School of Art (Los Angeles; later Chouinard Art Institute), 166 , 227 , 278
chronology of modern art in California, 273 -87
cinema. See film; film-as-an-art
Cinema Arts, Society of, 233
Circle Gallery (Hollywood), 181
Circle magazine, 285
Circles (Fischinger), 224
Citizen's Committee to Protect the Rincon Annex Murals, 92 n.43
city symphonies, 235
The Civil War (Refregier), 81
Clair, René: Entr'acte , 219
Clapp, William, 100 , 102
Clarke, Alson, 123 , 135 n.6
Clarke House (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.; Gill), 149
class struggle, theme of, 77
Clements, Grace, 185
Clinic of Stumble (Hirsh and Peterson), 234
Coate, Roland E., 139
Cocteau, Jean: Blood of a Poet , 223
cognitive art vs. perceptual art, 37 n.16
cognitive association, 24
Coit Memorial Tower murals (San Francisco), 73 -74, 100 , 105 -6, 282
Cold War, 78
College of Fine Arts (University of Southern California at Garvanza), 274
color: abstractions in, 26 -27;
and harmony, 26
colorism, 16 n.8
color organs, 230 -31
Commercial Artists' Club of Los Angeles, 279
The Communist Manifesto (Marx), 66 n.70
The Communist Manifesto in
Pictures (McChesney and H. Smith, illustrators), 285
Community Arts Association of Santa Barbara, 278
competitiveness among artists, 158
Composition in Blue (Fischinger), 224
Concrete Building and Investment Co., 149
concrete construction, 142 , 145-48, 150 ;
and concealed structure, 149 , 152 -53;
as continuation of Mediterranean/Hispanic style, 144 ;
cost of, 146 , 149 ;
Hillman system, 148 ;
hollow-wall technique, 148 ;
lift-slab technique, 146 , 148 , 149 ;
potential of, 143 -44
Concrete House Building Co., 144
Congress of Industrial Organizations, 77
Conner, Bruce, 202
constructivism, 193
Contemporary Artists of San Diego (formerly Associated Artists of San Diego), 280
Copley, William, 182 , 285
Copley Galleries (Los Angeles), 181 -82, 192 , 285
Copper (Dike), 172
Corbett, B. Cooper: J. Wesley Roberts House (Los Angeles), 146 , 147
Corbett, Edward, 55 , 57 ;
disillusionment with science, 66 n.62;
reactionary regionalism of, 62 ;
Untitled , 58 , 59 , 66 n.70
Cornejo, Francisco, 122 , 129 ;
Xochiquetzal , 127
Cornell, Joseph, 285
Cornwell, Dean, 279
Coronet Theatre (Los Angeles), 233
cosmic birth, theme of, 184
Cosmicide (Lundeberg), 185 , 186 , 188
Courvoisier Gallery (San Francisco), 181
Cowell, Henry, 276
Creation in Form and Color (Hofmann), 107
Creative Film Associates, 233
Crehan, Hubert, 65 n.60
Crespo, Jorge Juan, 122 , 127 ;
Sons of Italy Hall murals, 129
Criffith, Corinne, 130
Crippen, Fred: Blues Pattern , 238 ;
Performing Painter , 238
The Crowd (Hagedorn), plate 2
Crucifix (Lebrun), 45
crucifix as a metaphor for war, 45
cubism, 33 , 167 , 193
Cubism and Abstract Art (Museum of Modern Art, New York City), 108
Cunningham, Imogen, 251 , 254 , 257 , 260 , 262 , 268 n. 15, 277 ;
Mills College Amphitheater , 261 ;
on photography, 267
Cypress, Point Lobos, Carmel, California (Noskowiak), 266