State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work
Barbara Isenberg
(Author)
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Description
If California is a state of mind, Barbara Isenberg's interviews with more than fifty of California's prominent painters, writers, composers, architects, directors, and performers help explain why. "I find great delight in reading this book, and in the richness and contributions its heroes have made in life."-Studs Terkel.
Product Details
Price
$19.95
Publisher
Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
Publish Date
April 21, 2005
Pages
382
Dimensions
6.3 X 9.16 X 1.11 inches | 1.24 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781566636315
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About the Author
Barbara Isenberg has been writing about the arts for the Los Angeles Times since 1976 and is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Author of the critically acclaimed Making It Big: The Diary of a Broadway Musical, she has received a Distinguished Artists Award from the Los Angeles Music Center and has been a Getty Visiting Scholar. She lives in Los Angeles where she is associate director of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at the University of Southern Califorina.
Reviews
Reading these interviews is like eavesdropping on the artists' ruminations.
The book is the single best example of how creativity inspires creativity in the hothouse environment of California.
Probing interviews...plumbs the qualities of the Golden State that inspire those who were born or moved there.
Even as a non-Californian, I find great delight in reading this book, and in the richness and contributions its heroes have made in life.
Her book is filled with wonderful insights and anecdotes-funny, moving, and fascinating.
Interesting and eclectic...this is an illuminating book.
A vivid sampler of perspectives on California's unique and inspiring ambience and its significant contribution to world culture.
Isenberg's approach, to simply transcribe and edit her interviews, results in frank, deeply personal narratives, each in its distinctive voice.
These diverse firsthand stories...make great reading.
The book is the single best example of how creativity inspires creativity in the hothouse environment of California.
Probing interviews...plumbs the qualities of the Golden State that inspire those who were born or moved there.
Even as a non-Californian, I find great delight in reading this book, and in the richness and contributions its heroes have made in life.
Her book is filled with wonderful insights and anecdotes-funny, moving, and fascinating.
Interesting and eclectic...this is an illuminating book.
A vivid sampler of perspectives on California's unique and inspiring ambience and its significant contribution to world culture.
Isenberg's approach, to simply transcribe and edit her interviews, results in frank, deeply personal narratives, each in its distinctive voice.
These diverse firsthand stories...make great reading.
