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November 15, 1999
Claire Perry Pacific Arcadia: Images of California 1600–1915 Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 256 pp.; 60 color ills.; 154 b/w ills. Paper $25.00 (0195109376)

Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, California, April 21–June 27, 1999; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, October 30, 1999–January 9, 2000; Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska, February 19–April 30, 2000

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As suggested by the title Pacific Arcadia: Images of California, 1600-1915, this exhibition and the book that accompanies it study the changing and inducible imagery of the “California Dream” as presented by Claire Perry, curator of American art at Stanford’s Cantor Center for Visual Arts. Perry traces how, over a period of centuries, a variety of pictorial imagery was used to market California as the golden land of opportunity. Perry’s text, based on her doctoral...