[PDF.62zj] American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition

American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition

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 | #1910146 in eBooks |  2016-05-03 |  2016-05-03 | File type: PDF

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A tradition revealed|By C. Baswell|East coast snobs like me tend to think of California, especially southern California, as a land of glitz, with little awareness of the distant past. Holliday's book shows us how wrong we are, laying out (and showing in beautiful images) a world of classical style in California's arts and especially architecture. Although written by an academ| ||"Many works have considered classicism in America, but American Arcadia is the first to explore its manifestation in the Golden State. Peter Holliday details how Californian dreams were filled with Corinthian columns and temple pediments as well as palm tree

A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world

Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored until now is how, from the beginning, Californians in particular chose to visually and culturally craft their new world using the rhetoric of classical antiquity.
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.American Arcadia: California and the Classical Tradition   |  Peter J. Holliday. Which are the reasons I like to read books. Great story by a great author.

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