Contributions

  • Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, Calif.) - Contributor
  • Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project) - Contributor

Publication

2017 - Laguna Art Museum in association with University of California Press, California

Language

English

Word Count

81,750 words, Guess

Page Count

327 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100520296362
  • ISBN-139780520296367
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017026533
  • OCLC Control Number981118131
  • Better World Books9780520296367
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC701/.03
  • LCCN8214.5.U6 C345 2017
  • LCCN8214.5.U6C345 2017

Description

"California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820-1930 asks how Mexico became California. The project moves backward in time, establishing the foundations upon which modern artists built. Mapping practices, pictures of manners and customs, landscape paintings, and illustrated civic documents all played significant roles in encouraging inhabitants to apprehend the distinctive qualities of their surroundings and themselves. This book charts the ways in which Mexico and California engaged in this performing of place through the visual arts"--

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