Author: Nancy Dustin Wall Moure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Los Angeles Painters of the Nineteen-twenties
Author: Nancy Dustin Wall Moure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exhibition catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Movie-Made Los Angeles
Author: John Trafton
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814347789
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Explores the proto-cinematic visual culture of Los Angeles that set the scene for modern Hollywood. Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business and envisioning ideal moviegoers. These art forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted the dusty backwater town of Los Angeles to the largest city on the west coast by 1915. Photography aided the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in opening the region to the rest of nation. Painters gave traditions that were fading in Europe a new lease on life in the California sun, with signature colors and techniques that would be adopted by L.A. real estate companies, agribusiness, and health retreats. Tourism infused the iconography and signature styles of art with cultural mythology of the state’s colonial past, offering proto-cinematic experiences to those who ventured west. Author John Trafton explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of these art forms in the land of sunshine. A more complete story of the American film industry’s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814347789
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Explores the proto-cinematic visual culture of Los Angeles that set the scene for modern Hollywood. Los Angeles was a cinematic city long before the rise of Hollywood. By the dawn of the twentieth century, photography, painting, and tourist promotion in Southern California provided early filmmakers with a template for building a myth-making business and envisioning ideal moviegoers. These art forms positioned California as a land of transformative experiences and catapulted the dusty backwater town of Los Angeles to the largest city on the west coast by 1915. Photography aided the Southern Pacific Railroad Company in opening the region to the rest of nation. Painters gave traditions that were fading in Europe a new lease on life in the California sun, with signature colors and techniques that would be adopted by L.A. real estate companies, agribusiness, and health retreats. Tourism infused the iconography and signature styles of art with cultural mythology of the state’s colonial past, offering proto-cinematic experiences to those who ventured west. Author John Trafton explores how Hollywood, an industry based on world-building, was the product of these art forms in the land of sunshine. A more complete story of the American film industry’s ascendency in Los Angeles emerges when one considers how the City of Angels cultivated its self-image through pre-cinema narrative art.
California Impressionists
Author: Susan Landauer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780915977253
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California . . . This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression . . . it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase . . . The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780915977253
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The years around the turn of the century were a dynamic time in American art. Different and seemingly contradictory movements were evolving, and the dominant style that emerged during this period was Impressionism. Based in part on the broken brushwork and high-keyed palette of Claude Monet, it was a form especially suited to the dramatic landscape and shimmering light of California . . . This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression . . . it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase . . . The contributors' essays examine the socioeconomic forces that shaped this art movement, as well as the ways in which the art reflected California's self-cultivated image as a healthful, sun-splashed arcadia.
A Dictionary of the Art and Artists of Nineteenth Century Fresno, California
Author: Ralph J. Gorny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century
Author: Jules Heller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135638829
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135638829
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392406
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588392406
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Publications in Southern California Art 1, 2, & 3
Author: Nancy Dustin Wall Moure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Dictionary of Art and Artists in Southern California Before 1930
Author: Nancy Dustin Wall Moure
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
American Painting in the Twentieth Century
Author: Henry Geldzahler
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Artists in California, 1786-1940: L-Z
Author: Edan Milton Hughes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description