Introduction: Greetings from the left coast! / Louise Sandhaus
Sunbaked modernism. Introduction: The sun went to their heads
Diagram: Influences & intersections: sunbaked modernists
Essay: "Forward into the past!" / Lorraine Wild
Reprint: "California modern" / Alvin Lustig
Excerpt: "Merle Armitage: his many loves and varied lives" / Ward Ritchie, 1982
Industry & the indies. Introduction: For your viewing pleasure
Diagram: Influences & intersections: the indies and the industry
Essay: "Out of time: how to make motion graphics in Southern California" / Michael Worthington
Reprint: "The artist as design scientist" / Gene Youngblood, 1970
Reprint: "Animation mechanisms" / John Whitney, 1971
Excerpt: "Robert Abel: video surrealist" / Jeffery Altshuler, 1975
Sixties alt sixties. Introduction: The counterculture was never what it used to be
Diagram: Influences & the intersections: the alternative sixties
Essay: "Orange" / Lorraine Wild
Document: "Immaculate Heart College Art Department rules," 1965/1968
Excerpt: "Rock posters" / Dubald Stermer, 1967
Excerpt: "Communications," Whole Earth catalog, 1970
Excerpt: "California Institute of the Arts: prologue to a community," Arts in society / Walt Disney and Robert W. Corrigan, 1970
California girls. Introduction: View from the broads
Diagram: Influences & intersections: California girls
Essay: "Water and power" / Denise Gonzales Crisp
Excerpt: daisy with all the petals yes / Sister Corita Kent, 1966
Excerpt: "No, kid, make it happy!" / Dugald Stermer, 1971
Excerpt: "A feminist option" / Rose Deneve, 1976
