Pacific Arcadia : images of California, 1600-1915 / Claire Perry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perry, Claire, 1954-

Contributor:

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

California--In art--Exhibitions.

California.

Exhibitions.

Art, American--California--Exhibitions.

Art, American.

Art--Exhibitions.

Art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xiv, 242 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition opening Apr. 21, 1999 at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-229) and index.

ISBN:

0195109368

0195109376

OCLC:

38566017