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Author : Peter James Holliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190256517
"American Arcadia explores the innumerable ways Californians shaped their visual and social culture using models and ideals from the classical tradition"--
Author : Peter J. Holliday
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190256531
A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored until now is how, from the beginning, Californians in particular chose to visually and culturally craft their new world using the rhetoric of classical antiquity. Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, American Arcadia offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. In its earliest days, California was touted as the last opportunity for alienated Yankees to establish the refined gentleman-farmer culture envisioned by Jefferson and build new cities free of the filth and corruption of those they left back East. Through architecture and landscape design Californians fashioned an Arcadian setting evocative of ancient Greece and Rome.Later, as Arcadia gave way to urban sprawl, entire city plans were drafted to conjure classical antiquity, self-styled villas dotted the hills, and utopian communities began to shape the state's social atmosphere. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple. Telling stories from the creation of the famed aqueducts that turned the semi-arid landscape to a cornucopia of almonds, alfalfa, and oranges to the birth of the body-sculpting movement, American Arcadia offers readers a new way of seeing our past and ourselves.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Postal service
ISBN : UOM:39015071130473
Author : Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga
Publisher : London, Chapman
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : South America
ISBN : HARVARD:HWXGWG
Author : Detroit Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Public libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015033594808
Author : New England Railway Publishing Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1166 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Postal service
ISBN : HARVARD:HB2R79
Author : Alex Paknadel
Publisher : BOOM
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781613984949
What’s to Love: Our long tradition of breaking new talent—like Rafael Albuquerque (The Savage Brothers, American Vampire), Emma Rios (Hexed, Pretty Deadly), and Declan Shalvey (28 Days Later, Moon Knight)—continues with the debut of Alex Paknadel and Eric Scott Pfeiffer, two new creators whose extensive world-building in the sci-fi thriller Arcadia evokes comparisons to epics like Game of Thrones, The Matrix, and Astro City. What It Is: When 99% of humankind is wiped out by a pandemic, four billion people are “saved” by being digitized at the brink of death and uploaded into Arcadia, a utopian simulation in the cloud. But when Arcadia begins to rapidly deplete the energy resources upon which the handful of survivors in the real world (aka “The Meat”) depends, how long will The Meat be able—and willing—to help? Collects the entire eight-issue series.
Author : Louisiana. Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : New Orleans (La.)
ISBN : CHI:095539311
Author : Iain Pears
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345810861
In a major suspense novel set to surpass the internationally bestselling An Instance of the Fingerpost comes a dazzling story of youth, love and murderous ambition--a novel of time travel spanning three beautifully detailed worlds: the intellectual spires of Oxford in 1960, an ancient Arcadian world, and a dystopian future. In 1960, Henry Lytten is an Oxford don who dabbles in espionage and fiction writing. Rosie Wilson is the quick-witted, curious 15-year-old girl who feeds Professor Lytten's cat. Several hundred years in the future, living in a dystopian society on the Isle of Mull, is Angela Meerson--a brilliant psychomathematician who has discovered the world-changing potential of a powerful new machine. Somewhere, sometime, is Jay--a scholar's apprentice in an idyllic, pastoral land. Who these people really are, and how their stories come together, will be revealed in Iain Pears's fascinating great puzzle of a novel.
Author : Jean Jules Jusserand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015030045507
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Shippers' guides
ISBN : UOM:39015020937325
Author : Eva Landsberg and Sean Stanley, Claremont Heritage
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467131919
Situated along the eastern border of Los Angeles County and at the foot of the majestic San Gabriel Mountains is the community of Claremont. The city, founded in 1887 and incorporated in 1907, quickly became one of Southern California's most unique communities. Known as the "City of Trees and PhDs," Claremont has become famous for its lush oak-and-sycamore-lined boulevards, beautifully crafted architecture, and as the home of the highly praised liberal arts schools of the Claremont Colleges. First settled by the Serrano peoples on Indian Hill Mesa and once part of the vast Rancho San Jose, Claremont has gone through several important periods, including expanding from a frontier town to a Congregationalist hub and transitioning from a citrus powerhouse to an artist colony. Equal parts suburban community and college town, Claremont has attracted many for its picturesque setting and charming small-town feel.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Dressmaking
ISBN : MINN:31951000970026Q
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Communication and traffic
ISBN : UVA:X030832643
Author : Joshua Corey,George Calvin Waldrep
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1934103292
Poetry. This nearly 600-page anthology brings together seminal work in the genre of the pastoral as it has evolved into the 21st century. The book's sections on New Transcendentalisms, Textual Ecologies, Local Powers, and The Necropastoral indicate the range of work being represented. Featuring some of the most provocative and innovative poets of the current moment, this anthology has been curated not only with an eye to an exhilarating reading experience, but to the literature and creative writing classrooms as well. An accompanying web site with a teachers' guide will make this volume especially valuable for students and teachers. Contributors: Emily Abendroth, Will Alexander, Rae Armantrout, Eric Baus, Dan Beachy-Quick, John Beer, Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, Sherwin Bitsui, Kamau Brathwaite, Susan Briante, Oni Buchanan, Heather Christle, Stephen Collis, Jack Collom, Phil Cordelli, T. Zachary Cotler, Brent Cunningham, Christopher Dewdney, Timothy Donnelly, Michael Dumanis, Camille Dungy, Marcella Durand, Lisa Fishman, Rob Fitterman, Forrest Gander, Merrill Gilfillan, C. S. Giscombe, Peter Gizzi, Jody Gladding, Johannes Göransson, Chris Green, Arielle Greenberg, Richard Greenfield, Sarah Gridley, e. tracy grinnell, Gabriel Gudding, Joshua Harmon, Nathan Hauke, Lyn Hejinian, Mary Hickman, Brenda Hillman, Kevin Holden, Paul Hoover, Erika Howsare & Kate Schapira, Brenda Iijima, Sally Keith, Karla Kelsey, Amy King, Melissa Kwasny, Brian Laidlaw, Maryrose Larkin, Ann Lauterbach, Karen An-hwei Lee, Paul Legault, Sylvia Legris, Dana Levin, Eric Linsker, Alessandra Lynch, J. Michael Martinez, Nicole Mauro, Aaron McCollough, Joyelle McSweeney, K. Silem Mohammad, Laura Moriarty, Rusty Morrison, Erin Mouré, Jennifer Moxley, Laura Mullen, Melanie Noel, Kathryn Nuernberger, Peter O'Leary, Patrick Pritchett, Bin Ramke, Stephen Ratcliffe, Matt Reeck, Marthe Reed, Evelyn Reilly, Karen Rigby, Ed Roberson, Lisa Robertson, Elizabeth Robinson, Craig Santos Perez, Leslie Scalapino, Standard Schaefer, Brandon Shimoda, Eleni Sikelianos, Jonathan Skinner, Gustaf Sobin, Juliana Spahr, Jane Sprague, Fenn Stewart, Adam Strauss, Mathias Svalina, Arthur Sze, John Taggart, Michelle Taransky, Brian Teare, Tony Tost, Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Cathy Wagner, Elizabeth WIllis, Jane Wong, and C. D. Wright.