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images of California, 1600-1915

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An edition of Pacific Arcadia (1999)

Pacific Arcadia

images of California, 1600-1915

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This illustrated catalog presents a fascinating cultural history of an idyllic vision of California that still figures prominently in the American imagination. 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.

Perry investigates how and why this vision of a Pacific paradise was developed and marketed to the public, taking as her subject the images produced by early visitors and residents confronted by the peculiarities of California's landscape, the abundance of its natural resources, and the omnipresence of the vast Pacific.

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Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
242

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Subjects
American Art, Art, Art, American, Exhibitions, In art, Art, exhibitions
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California

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Pacific Arcadia: images of California, 1600-1915
1999, Oxford University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-229) and index.
Exhibition itinerary: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, April 21-June 27, 1999 ; San Diego Museum of Art, October 30, 1999-January 9, 2000 ; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, February 19-April 30, 2000.

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760/.04499794/07479473
Library of Congress
N8214.5.U6 P473 1999

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xiv, 242 p. :
Number of pages
242

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OL344420M
Internet Archive
pacificarcadiaim00perr
ISBN 10
0195109368, 0195109376
LCCN
98003382
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693126
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2867690
1465422

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