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- catalog abstract "Good Mourning California is a poetic vision of the landscape, nature, and gardens of California, illustrated with Barbara Stauffacher Solomon's own drawings, collages, and photographs. Her lively, mixed-media illustrations examine the images of the California landscape which so seductively and successfully represent the myth of paradise and the process by which this modern garden paradise is disappearing. As in her previous book, Green Architecture and the Agrarian Garden, Solomon has also written the text, which traces the history of the "Golden State" from its mention in ancient myths to the present. She combines her personal interpretations of her home state with the reflections of other California visitors, from early Spanish explorers - such as Hernan Cortes, who was in search of El Dorado, and Juan de Iturbe, who believed California was "a very large island and not part of the continent" - to writers like Mark Twain, Henry Miller, and Allen Ginsberg. The text is itself a collage, inseparable from Solomon's art and her ideas about nature, and, like the illustrations, it "catches California, suddenly, and for a moment."".
- catalog contributor b3290933.
- catalog coverage "California Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "California In art.".
- catalog coverage "California Pictorial works.".
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "As in her previous book, Green Architecture and the Agrarian Garden, Solomon has also written the text, which traces the history of the "Golden State" from its mention in ancient myths to the present.".
- catalog description "Good Mourning California is a poetic vision of the landscape, nature, and gardens of California, illustrated with Barbara Stauffacher Solomon's own drawings, collages, and photographs. Her lively, mixed-media illustrations examine the images of the California landscape which so seductively and successfully represent the myth of paradise and the process by which this modern garden paradise is disappearing.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-141).".
- catalog description "She combines her personal interpretations of her home state with the reflections of other California visitors, from early Spanish explorers - such as Hernan Cortes, who was in search of El Dorado, and Juan de Iturbe, who believed California was "a very large island and not part of the continent" - to writers like Mark Twain, Henry Miller, and Allen Ginsberg.".
- catalog description "The Island of California -- Nature -- Gardens -- Landscapes.".
- catalog description "The text is itself a collage, inseparable from Solomon's art and her ideas about nature, and, like the illustrations, it "catches California, suddenly, and for a moment."".
- catalog extent "143 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0847815412 (HC)".
- catalog identifier "0847815420 (PBK)".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Rizzoli,".
- catalog spatial "California Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "California In art.".
- catalog spatial "California Pictorial works.".
- catalog spatial "California".
- catalog spatial "California.".
- catalog subject "917.94 20".
- catalog subject "Art Themes, motives.".
- catalog subject "Art, American California 20th century.".
- catalog subject "F861 .S68 1993".
- catalog subject "Gardens California.".
- catalog subject "Landscape California.".
- catalog subject "Landscapes California.".
- catalog subject "Nature in art.".
- catalog subject "Panoramas California.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Island of California -- Nature -- Gardens -- Landscapes.".
- catalog title "Good mourning California / Barbara Stauffacher Solomon.".
- catalog type "text".