Title: "A City of Picture Buyers": Art, Identity, and Aspiration in Los Angeles and Southern California, 1891-1914
Abstract: In less than twenty-five years, Los Angeles and other southern California urban centers evolved from culturally sterile communities into vibrant art centers. That remarkable transformation resulted from a combination of social, economic, and political changes that drew residents to landscape paintings. They enjoyed widespread popularity because residents invested them with meanings that transcended art. They became icons of identity, bolstered visions of an unspoiled suburban Eden, and helped southern California's white middle-class to cope with the mounting stress of modern urban life.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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