State Of The Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work

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.

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.