Foreword / Dennis Szakacs
The square and the cool : California art, design, and culture at midcentury / Elizabeth Armstrong
Domestic cool : modern architecture and its image in southern California / Elizabeth A.T. Smith
Hard-edge cool / Frances Colpitt
Making the scene : West Coast modernism and the movies / Bruce Jenkins
Cool on cool : William Claxton and the way the music looked / Dave Hickey
Formal, cool, dense : graphic design in Los Angeles at midcentury / Lorraine Wild
The migration of modernism : from turn-of-the-century Vienna to midcentury Los Angeles / Michael Boyd
Cold War cool / Thomas Hine
1959 : a snapshot of midcentury culture / Anna Brouwer and Mary Trent
Selected texts and documents.
