California Mexicana
Subtitle: missions to murals, 1820-1930
By: edited by Katherine Manthorne
Contributors: Laguna Art Museum (Laguna Beach, Calif.); Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780520296367
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: In art; Art and society; Civilization; Exhibitions; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: "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.