American Arcadia [electronic resource] : California and the classical tradition / Peter J. Holliday.
Holliday, Peter James, author.
2016
F861 .H693 2016eb
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Title American Arcadia [electronic resource] : California and the classical tradition / Peter J. Holliday.
Author Holliday, Peter James, author.
ISBN 9780190256548 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190256517
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxix, 446 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190256517 doi
Call Number F861 .H693 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 979.4
Summary "American Arcadia explores the innumerable ways Californians shaped their visual and social culture using models and ideals from the classical tradition"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Previously issued in print: 2016.
"American Arcadia explores the innumerable ways Californians shaped their visual and social culture using models and ideals from the classical tradition"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction
1. Out of the wilderness, Arcadia
2. Promoting "our Italy"
3. "Calitopia:" new models for cities
4. Private citizens, public works
5. Utopian communities
6. Spectacles en plein air
7. Houses and gardens before World War II
8. The Southland House as a set
9. A "villa in a garden" for the masses
10. Palaces and patrons in the 20th century
11. Aphrodite, Atlas, and the California body
12. Metaphors misconstrued.

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