CALIFORNIABY: KEVIN STARR

Set 2 - Chapters 10 – 12Time Period from 1950-2000

Power Point SlidesBy Amanda GaribayHistory14131644

California was linked to the effort to discover a truth, solve a problem, make a profit, make productive use of ones time, and in the process, make the world a better and more interesting place. Open, flexible, entrepreneurial, unembarrassed by the profit motive, California emerged as a society friendly to the search for utopia through science and technology.

O Brave New World!: Seeking Utopia Through

Science and Technology

Ch. 10

O Brave New World!

O Brave New World!

San Francisco further implemented the

Burnham Plan, however, in the idealized

idiom of festival architecture when the

Panama Pacific International Exposition was

opened on February 20, 1915

An Imagined Place: Art and Life on the Coast of Dreams

A main concern: the frontier migrated into motion pictures in the form of the Western. Continuing its commitment to landscape, painting remained en plein air and Postimpressionistic into the 1920’s before exploding into Fauvist color with the group of artists know as the Society of Six.

Jerrold Turner is one of the Bay Area's prominent Plein Air painters and a founding member of The Outsiders, a group of Plein Air painters whose colorful, fauvist style relates back to such groups as The Society of Six, the Fauves and other colorist schools.

Ch.11

An Imagined Place

Painting embraced Expressionism and

abstractio

n at midcentury, th

en

diversified into a number of styles at

the end of the century.

Serious music was also taking form from the1920s to the 1930s. Then arrived the Émigré composers.

An Imagined Place

Photography made a transition from the

dreamy painterly values of Pictorialism in

the early 1900’s to the austere purities of

the work of Edward Weston and Ansel

Adams.

An Imagined Place

Architecture also sustained its commitment to Arts and Crafts and Mediterranean Revival into the 1920’s, until modernism emerged to dominate the midcentury.

This was a time in California, where not everyone was treated fairly in any of these periods. The Spanish settlement represented an intrusion and an aggression against Native Americans, whatever the motivations of the Franciscan padres might have been.

Ecumenopolis: Forging a World Society

Ch. 12

Ecumenopolis

During the Gold Rush, diversity exfoliated into brilliant hues as nearly every portion of the planet sent its people to California. Historian J.S. Holliday called it, “ the world rushed in.”

Ecumenopolis

The value of the Mexican Americans presence in California, despite the distinctions that were repeatedly being made between legal and illegal immigrants were at question.

During the time of World War two, was the problem of the anti-illegal campaign. It focused upon illegal's from Mexico