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: 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: 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: 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: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher:
Published: 1861
Total Pages: 748
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: J. Michael Walker
Publisher: Heyday Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9781597140751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Artist-author J. Michael Walker wandered L.A.'s many streets named after saints, uncovering their transcendent beauty. Combining meticulous research with artistic inspiration, Walker depicts historical and contemporary Angelinos as their divine equivalents. Proud, defiant, and illuminative, these "street-saints" reveal their own unique versions of sublimity and, in doing so, challenge traditional notions of what it means to bless and blessed."--BOOK JACKET.
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: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 1861
Total Pages: 752
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kenneth N. Owens
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780806136813
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combines narrative history and firsthand Mormon accounts that cast light on the presence of Latter-day Saints in California during the Gold Rush in the middle 1840s. Reprint.