Pacific Arcadia : images of California, 1600-1915
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Pacific Arcadia : images of California, 1600-1915
（Oxford paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 1999
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Exhibition itinerary: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, April 21-June 27, 1999 ; San Diego Museum of Art, October 30, 1999-January 9, 2000 ; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, February 19-April 30, 2000
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-229) and index
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To accompany an exhibit opening in April 1999 at Stanford University's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, this catalogue describes how images dating from the arrival of the 16th-century Spanish explorers have been used to cultivate the notion of the "California dream." Selected paintings, maps, and printed ephemera portray the state as a Pacific paradise where economic bliss is easily attainable. Together with the Gold Rush in 1848, the author states, the idealization of California had contributed to the tripling of the population by the turn of the century, and affects popular notions today of the "Golden State."
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