The California Pop-Up Book | 
| Creators: Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Carolyn See, Keven Starr, Dennis Hopper, Graham Nash
Publisher: Universe
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 487085
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 14
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 11.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0789305003
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.4053
EAN: 9780789305008
ASIN: 0789305003
Publication Date: November 17, 2001
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Product Description
The California Pop-Up Book is a creative exploration of the California experience through 3-D op-ups, pull-outs, booklets, and narratives. Produced jointly by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Universe Publishing on the occasion of the LACMA exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, this extraordinary book highlights the dynamic relationship between the arts and the way the Golden State has been portrayed and conceived in the popular imagination. Whether promoted as the Edenic paradise early in the twentieth century or viewed as a mulitcultural metropolis of the future in our own time, California has exerted a profound fascination the world over for more than a century. Arranged chronologically form the Gold Rush to the Walt Disney Concert Hall (scheduled to open in 2003), this commemorative book will be a keepsake for audiences worldwide.
Filled with an array of surprises, the book features many of California's great treasures fashioned into pop-ups pop-ups, including:
-Balboa Park, San Diego
-Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #22, Los Angeles
-Chicano Park, San Diego
-Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood
-Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
-Hearst Castle, San Simeon
-The Mission Inn, Riverside
-Sea Ranch, Sonoma County
-Frank O. Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
-Watts Towers, Los Angeles
Other places visited in The California Pop-Up Book:
-Central Avenue, Los Angeles
-Disneyland Park's Tomorrowland, Anaheim
-The Gamble House, Pasadena
Paper engineers have created unique pop-ups and pullouts of original works by California artists:
-David Hockney's Mulholland Drive
-Edward Ruscha's Standard Station
-Robbert Flick's Wilshire Boulevard
-Gilbert "Magu" Lujan's Our Family Car
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| Customer Reviews:
 The California Pop-Up Book September 7, 2008
Terry Ruscin (Hendersonville, NC USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is--for the most part,--masterfully engineered. The pop-up of the Golden Gate Bridge is particularly spectacular.
There is, however, a blatant void concerning the dawn of California's written history--namely, there is not one pop-up of a Spanish mission. The cover of this book includes a mission bell tower in its collage-style design, suggesting there might be a mission inside. Nada.
Perhaps a pop-up book of the 21 historic California missions is in order.
 Pop-up is Tops January 10, 2007
Keanu Dude (Indianapolis, IN United States)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Now I know why I love California so much - this pop-up book tells it all! Well worth the money.
I have lazy eye October 14, 2005
Hamilcar Barca
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
Even with lack of proper stereoscopic vision, due to serious lazy eye, the figures appear vivid and dimensional. The book includes a set of postcards that may be sent to taunt the less fortunate who haven't witnessed the wonders herein.
A Novelty Worth Having June 30, 2004
QUILLSPINNER (Southern California)
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
As a California historian and author of the book: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MISCELLANY, I found this California pop-up to be a charmingly fun novelty book to share when company comes over.
The Real California - in Three Dimensions December 2, 2001
58 out of 69 found this review helpful
The book looks like it might just be a decorative coffee table item, but the content belies that impression. The pop-ups are fun and attractive, but the real story is in the choice of objects and the writing. The selections speak to the myth of California that was consciously created by early explorers, developers, and movie moguls but became its own reality as people migrated to the state ready to play the roles the myth-makers created for them. In exposing the history through objects and some remarkable writing by such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn See, Graham Nash, Alice Waters, Terry Gilliam, and Richard Rodriguez, the pre-mythic history and the development of a true California culture emerges...one in which the tinsel is a little tarnished around the edges, but glows as brightly as ever with its own special light.
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