We Gather Together

We Gather Together
Author: Charles C. Eldredge
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0520380312

The mutual history of art, agriculture, and American identity as told through the theme of the harvest. The harvest has traditionally been a productive season, both on American farms and in its artists’ studios. Before the early nineteenth century, the ideal of the Jeffersonian yeoman, singly cultivating a subsistence plot for family use, dominated the American imagination; after World War II, the advent of big agribusiness proved less immediately attractive for artists. In We Gather Together, Charles C. Eldredge examines the period in between—when many Americans were farmers and much of America was farmland. Organized in a series of case studies each devoted to a single crop, We Gather Together initially focuses on familiar commodity crops such as corn, wheat, and potatoes, and then expands to other yields by Native American harvesters and California floriculturists, as well as winter ice cutters and coastal seaweed gatherers. This novel history of agriculture and art traces parallel developments on land and canvas, highlighting breakthroughs in each field. Artists such as Winslow Homer, Doris Lee, and Georgia O’Keeffe are joined by innovators in agriculture, whether mechanical inventors such as Eli Whitney, John Deere, and Cyrus McCormick or genetic hybridizers such as Luther Burbank, W. Atlee Burpee, and Theodosia Shepherd. Surveying an astonishing amount of material and a wide range of paintings, prints, and other artworks from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, We Gather Together gorgeously demonstrates how the use of agricultural metaphors permeated American visual culture. The harvest, we see here, came to signify and dominate politics, poetry, and popular culture, ultimately representing a primary facet of American identity and nationhood.

Out West

Out West
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1894
Genre: Pacific States
ISBN:

Contains monthly column of the Sequoya League.

Land of Sunshine

Land of Sunshine
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1894
Genre: Pacific States
ISBN:

Includes reports, etc., of the Southwest Society of the Archaeological Institutes of America.

Southern California's Santa Barbara, Channel Islands, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, San Simeon & Beyond

Southern California's Santa Barbara, Channel Islands, Ventura, San Luis Obispo, San Simeon & Beyond
Author: Don Young
Publisher: Hunter Publishing, Inc
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2011-04-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1556502095

Everyone knows the feeling of relief associated with watching "the big city" disappear behind you in the rear view mirror ... and the anticipation that can grip you as you head for a serene rural countryside. Nowhere are these sensations more strongly felt than they are as you head north out of Greater Los Angeles on scenic US 101 toward the sandy beaches, golden hills and verdant fields of flowers and vineyards along the coast toward San Simeon. Concentrating on the highway is increasingly difficult as you are constantly distracted by the sandy, sun-drenched beaches, the surf pounding.