Author: Nash, Steven A.
Title: Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in the Bay Area
Description: Berkeley, Calif, University of California Press, 1995. Softcover. 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. VG, corners may be slightly bumped.

Keywords: American Art ; California Art ; ; Museum Exhibitions - American Art


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