Pacific Arcadia: Images of California, 1600-1915

by Perry, Claire
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ISBN: 9780195109368
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Since the arrival of the Spanish explorers in the sixteenth century, California has been thought of as a land of promise and opportunity. This lavishly illustrated catalog, which is to accompany a major exhibit opening in April 1999 at Stanford's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual
Arts and traveling subsequently to two other museums, presents a fascinating cultural history of an idyllic vision of California that still figures prominently in the American imagination. Brought together in one show for the first time, this combination of art is unique in its range from high art
to popular representations. Currier and Ives lithographs and the work of early European cartographers are juxtaposed with photographs by Carleton E. Watkins, Arnold Genthe, and Eadweard Muybridge, and paintings by Albert Bierstadt, James Walker, and William Hahn, among others. With one hundred and
fifty plates--sixty in full color--Pacific Arcadia illuminates the imagery of the California Dream.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Perry, Claire
  • ISBN: 9780195109368
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 11.29 x 1.00
  • Number Of Pages: 256
  • Publication Year: 1999

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