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American Arcadia - California and the Classical Tradition (Hardcover)
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American Arcadia - California and the Classical Tradition (Hardcover)
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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. Through a lively exploration of material
culture, literature, and architecture, American Arcadia offers a
tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from
the late nineteenth century to the present. In its earliest days,
California was touted as the last opportunity for alienated Yankees
to establish the refined gentleman-farmer culture envisioned by
Jefferson and build new cities free of the filth and corruption of
those they left back East. Through architecture and landscape
design Californians fashioned an Arcadian setting evocative of
ancient Greece and Rome.Later, as Arcadia gave way to urban sprawl,
entire city plans were drafted to conjure classical antiquity,
self-styled villas dotted the hills, and utopian communities began
to shape the state's social atmosphere. Art historian Peter J.
Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the
evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories
and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as
Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for
Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most
publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled
the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple. Telling stories from the creation
of the famed aqueducts that turned the semi-arid landscape to a
cornucopia of almonds, alfalfa, and oranges to the birth of the
body-sculpting movement, American Arcadia offers readers a new way
of seeing our past and ourselves.
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