California Mexicana : missions to murals, 1820-1930 /
Manthorne, Katherine,editor.
Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, Calif.),organizer,host institution.
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
"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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"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"--
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820-1930, presented at Laguna Art Museum from October 15, 2017 to January 14, 2018."
"California Mexicana is part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching project and ambitious exploration of Latin America and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles."--Preliminary page.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The arts at the California missions : clusters of meaning / Clara Bargellini -- Mexican California, 1821-1848 : Californios, rancheros, vaqueros / Katherine Manthorne.
Art and society
Art and society
Art and society.
Civilization.