California Saints
Author: Richard O. Cowan
Publisher: Bookcraft, Incorporated
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781570082009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard O. Cowan
Publisher: Bookcraft, Incorporated
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9781570082009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Norman Neuerburg
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mission paintings and painted sculpture of the Spanish and Mexican eras.
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
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Published: 1861
Total Pages: 748
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lisbeth Haas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 0520280628
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, showing how the missions became sites of their authority, memory, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash, Luiseño, and Yokuts territories, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824, native emancipation after 1826, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848.
Author: Jonathan E. Calvillo
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0190097795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book takes readers into the Mexican-majority neighborhoods of Santa Ana, California, a city once dubbed the hardest place to live in the U.S. Jonathan E. Calvillo explores the challenges faced by Mexican immigrants in this working-class city, highlighting how faith practices are central to social interactions and community building. How does faith shape residents' sense of ethnic identity? Drawing on five years of participant observation and in-depthinterviews, The Saints of Santa Ana offers a rich portrait of a fascinating American community.
Author: Steven Watson
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-09-05
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 0307822737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Perhaps the oddest and most influential collaboration in the history of American modernism was hatched in 1926, when a young Virgil Thomson knocked on Gertrude Stein's door in Paris. Eight years later, their opera Four Saints in Three Acts became a sensation--the longest-running opera in Broadway history to date and the most widely reported cultural event of its time. Four Saints was proclaimed the birth of a new art form, a cellophane fantasy, "cubism on stage." It swept the public imagination, inspiring new art and new language, and defied every convention of what an opera should be. Everything about it was revolution-ary: Stein's abstract text and Thomson's homespun music, the all-black cast, the costumes, and the com-bustible sets. Moving from the Wadsworth Atheneum to Broadway, Four Saints was the first popular modernist production. It brought modernism, with all its flamboyant outrage against convention, into the mainstream. This is the story of how that opera came to be. It involves artists, writers, musicians, salon hostesses, and an underwear manufacturer with an appetite for publicity. The opera's success depended on a handful of Harvard-trained men who shaped America's first museums of modern art. The elaborately intertwined lives of the collaborators provide a window onto the pioneering generation that defined modern taste in America in the 1920s and 1930s. A brilliant cultural historian with a talent for bringing the past to life, Steven Watson spent ten years researching and writing this book, interviewing many of the collaborators and performers. Prepare for Saints is the first book to describe this pivotal moment in American cultural history. It does so with a spirit and irreverence worthy of its subject. NOTE: This edition does not include photographs.
Author: Robert A. Scott
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2011-10-04
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0520271343
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Scott has written a magnificent book on the realities of religious healing. He brings sensibility, reason, impressive insight, and the best information to bear—qualities seldom manifested in the centuries of claim, cynicism, and controversy on the topic. His analysis is destined to raise the level of discourse on dramatic religious experiences."—Neil Smelser, author of The Odyssey Experience
Author: Edward Mornin
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 0892369841
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"San Francisco, Santa Monica, Santa Barbara. How did all these Spanish saints' names come to pepper the map of California? This handy reference guide features more than ninety entries on the Golden State's namesake saints. It includes fascinating historical information from Old California on the origins of each name, color illustrations of each saint from paintings and other artworks, and a synopsis of the saint's life."--Cover, p. [4].
Author: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-01-03
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0520224809
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien
Author: John Stratton Hawley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987-09-14
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780520061637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores a larger family of saints—those celebrated not just by Christianity but by other religious traditions of the world: Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist, Confucian, African, and Caribbean. The essays show how saints serve as moral exemplars in the communities that venerate them.