Author: Kathryn Masson Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0847839656 Category : House & Home Languages : en Pages : 0
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A luxurious presentation in all-new photography of the most splendid estates and mansions of the Golden State. California Splendor, a lavish, beautifully produced, large-format volume, presents iconic California houses dating from the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento of 1857 to publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst’s palatial castle in San Simeon, completed after decades of construction in 1947. The book is comprehensive in its treatment, presenting to the reader a rediscovery and fresh exploration of the state’s great architectural offerings and showcasing the very best, in styles ranging from Spanish Colonial Revival, English Revival, and Mission Revival to Adobe, Monterey Colonial, and Italianate Victorian. Lovingly featured are such magnificent homes as the Arts and Crafts masterpiece of architects Charles and Henry Greene—the Gamble House—a work of subtle refinement and mysterious charm built for a Cincinnati businessman who longed for warm summer breezes and the fragrance of orange blossoms. The reader also finds here the extraordinary Filoli House and Garden, the Henry Huntington Mansion, the Spreckels Mansion, Casa del Herrero, and Carolands, to name only a few. More potent and powerful in our imagination than any one house is the dream, the aspiration to happiness and grandeur embodied by them all—a dream brought down to earth and to which we have been invited in California Splendor.
Author: Jeffrey F. Hamburger Publisher: Giles ISBN: 9781911282860 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 216
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A highly-illustrated history and survey of centers of book production and use within the Holy Roman Empire over the course of seven hundred years.
Author: Mrs. A. S. C. Forbes Publisher: ISBN: Category : California Languages : en Pages : 406
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Contains history of California; history and descriptions of the missions, non-church landmarks and buildings. Describes El Camino Real Association of California, which sought to memorialize the road with Mission Bell guideposts, and political history and people.
Author: Wen-hsin Yeh Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520258177 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 336
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"What a fine and illuminating book! Shanghai Splendor is an important and captivating work of scholarship."—David Strand, author of Rickshaw Beijing: City People and Politics in the 1920s "This in an outstanding work. Although Shanghai has been among the most popular subjects for scholars in modern Chinese studies, one has yet to see a project as impressive as this. Yeh tells a most fascinating story."—David Der-wei Wang, author of The Monster That Is History: History, Violence, and Fictional Writing in 20th Century China
Author: Susan Landauer Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780915977222 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 112
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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.
Author: Anne Summerfield Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 376
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Embellished with incredibly sophisticated gold, silver, and silk patterning, the refined ceremonial textiles of the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra are often so complicated that even a highly skilled weaver can complete only a few centimeters in a full day at her loom. Motif patterns woven into these exquisite cloths reflect the Minangkabau adat - the indigenous ideology that prescribes roles for all activities and speech. In this lavishly illustrated volume, 13 contributing authors--9 of them Minangkabau--consider ceremonial dress, motifs, fibers, patterning techniques, traditional architecture, ceremonies, jewelry, music, dance, literature, and historiography.
Author: Phoebe Schroeder Kropp Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520243644 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 396
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"This is a rich and learned volume that has a story to tell to those seeking to understand contemporary Southern California."--David Johnson, managing editor of the Pacific Historical Review "Engagingly written and well researched, California Vieja is an intriguing, persuasive examination of the politics of memory and the built environment in southern California."--Vicki Ruiz, author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America
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