Visual Arts 233: Birth of the Cool – An Exhibition Tour
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Grades: K - 12

Video Description: Take a virtual tour of “Birth of the Cool ” an exhibition highlighting the art, photography, music, graphic design, and furniture of the California Cool movement of the 1950s.  On display at the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University from September 19, 2008, to January 5, 2009, “Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury” took a retrospective look at the broad cultural climate of cool that informed the architecture, painting, photography, furniture, graphic arts, film, and music produced in Southern California during the 1950s. The exhibition included more than 200 objects as well as a jazz lounge, interactive timeline, and a media bar with film, animation, and television programming.  The exhibition was organized by the Orange County Museum of Art in Los Angeles and curated by Elizabeth Armstrong.

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