The San Francisco Bay Area boasts one of the richest and most continuous traditions of landscape art in the entire country. Looking back over the past one hundred years, the contributors to this in-depth survey consider the diverse range of artists who have been influenced by the region's compelling union of water and land, peaks and valleys, and fog and sunlight. Paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, landscape architecture, earthworks, conceptual art, and designs in city planning and architecture are all ...
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The San Francisco Bay Area boasts one of the richest and most continuous traditions of landscape art in the entire country. Looking back over the past one hundred years, the contributors to this in-depth survey consider the diverse range of artists who have been influenced by the region's compelling union of water and land, peaks and valleys, and fog and sunlight. Paintings, sculpture, graphic arts, photography, landscape architecture, earthworks, conceptual art, and designs in city planning and architecture are all represented. The diversity reflects not just the glories of nature but also an exploration of what constitutes "landscape" in its broadest, most complete sense. Among the more than two hundred works of art are those by well-known artists and designers such as Bernard Maybeck, Diego Rivera, Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Brown, Lawrence Halprin, and Christo. Lesser-known artists are here as well, resulting in an exceptional array of approaches to the natural environment. The essays also explore key themes in the Bay Area's landscape art tradition, including the ethnic perspectives that have played an essential role in the region's art. The inexhaustible ability of the land to stimulate different personal meanings is made clear in this volume, and the effect yields a deeper understanding of how art can shape our lives in ways both spiritual and practical, how the landscape without constantly merges with the landscape within . Published in association with The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
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Very Good. 216 pp., many illus. most in color. Some wear and creasing to the covers, otherwise fine. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum 25 June-10 September 1995.
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Used-Very Good. The San Francisco Bay Area boasts one of the richest and most consistent traditions of landscape art in the entire country. Looking back over the past one hundred years, the contributors to this in-depth survey consider the diverse range of artists who have been influenced by the region's compelling unions of water and land, peaks and valleys, and ever-changing fog and mist-filtered light. All manner of visual representation appear in this book: painting, sculpture, graphic art, photography, landscape architecture, earthwork, conceptual art, and city planning and architectural design. Over two hundred works of art are discussed, and many well known artists and designers are represented, from Bernard Maybeck, Diego Rivera, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams to Richard Diebenkorn, Joan Brown, Lawrence Halprin, and Christo. The essays explore key themes in the Bay Area's landscape art tradition: trends linking that tradition to work from different regions, its worldwide influence, connections between the visual arts and the region's potent preservationist movements, and the fragile balance between the cultural and the natural. Equally important are the many ethnic perspectives that have played an essential role in Bay Area art.
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VG, corners may be slightly bumped. Blue & pictorial wraps. xxiii, 216 pp. Profuse bw and color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1995 exhibition that begins chronologically with California landscape depictions from the 1870s. With illustrated essays contributed by Bill Berkson, Nancy Boas, Michael R. Corbett, Patricia Junker, Constance Lewallen, Ellen Manchester, Steven A. Nash, and Marc Simpson. Contents: Rearranging the environment: the making of a California landscape 1870s to 1990s / Michael R. Corbett--Pastoral visions at continent's end: paintings of the Bay Area 1890 to 1930 / Nancy Boas and Marc Simpson--Celebrating possibilities and confronting limits: painting of the 1930s and 1940s / Patricia Junker--Nature and self in landscape art of the 1950s and 1960s / Steven A. Nash--Metaphor, matter, canvas, stage: conceptual art 1968 to 1995 / Constance Lewallen--Changes like the weather: painting and sculpture since 1970 / Bill Berkson--Seeking place: photographic reflections on the landscape of the Bay Area / Ellen Manchester.
