Eccentric California

Author : Jan Friedman
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841621265
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eccentric California written by Jan Friedman and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan Friedman's Eccentric America proved that the most unlikely events and landmarks could become tourist attractions. This award-winning title is dedicated to the sheer lunacy of California and her citizens, covering the biggest, the best, the wackiest and weirdest of the state's people and places. From art-car and golf-cart parades to the Valentine's Day Sex Tour at the San Francisco Zoo; from a festival that moons Amtrak to a town with its own language; from obsessed collectors of Pez, yo-yos, and bananas to kitschy theme motels and a man who built a three-storey mountain out of hay, adobe, and old paint. Eccentric California takes an in-depth look at one very peculiar place.

Author : Tirza True Latimer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520288866
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eccentric Modernisms written by Tirza True Latimer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if we ascribe significance to aesthetic and social divergences rather than waving them aside as anomalous? What if we look closely at what does not appear central, or appears peripherally, or does not appear at all, viewing ellipses, outliers, absences, and outtakes as significant? Eccentric Modernisms places queer demands on art history, tracing the relational networks connecting cosmopolitan eccentrics who cultivated discrepant strains of modernism in America during the 1930s and 1940s. Building on the author’s earlier studies of Gertrude Stein and other lesbians who participated in transatlantic cultural exchanges between the world wars, this book moves in a different direction, focusing primarily on the gay men who formed Stein’s support network and whose careers, in turn, she helped to launch, including the neo-romantic painters Pavel Tchelitchew and writer-editor Charles Henri Ford. Eccentric Modernisms shows how these “eccentric modernists” bucked trends by working collectively, reveling in disciplinary promiscuity and sustaining creative affiliations across national and cultural boundaries.

Author : Benedict Le Vay
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841621937
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eccentric London written by Benedict Le Vay and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2007 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benedict le Vay reveals London's most bizarre and macabre secrets with his novel approach, which doubles both as a thematic guide to the hidden attractions of the streets of London and a compelling insight into the citizens and culture of this historic city.

Author : Benedict Le Vay
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 9781841621227
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eccentric Britain written by Benedict Le Vay and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2005 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful romp around the British Isles searching out the mad marquess, the eccentric earl, the barmy baron, and the daft duke and gathering a fair collection of crackpot inventors, weird adventurers and fascinatingly and not to mention insanely curious customs along the way. All of which make this rainy little island home to that remarkable breed of individual - the British eccentric.This expanded book still doesn't tell you where Stonehenge is, but it does tell you where ten spookier stone circles are where there will be no crowds, no admission charges and no parking problems... This is a book for the intelligent, humorous, curious tourist who doesn't go with the crowd. It is also a great armchair read that has been known to have readers weeping with mirth at the weird ways of the British.

Author : Ananda Pellerin
Publisher : Atelier Aditions
ISBN 13 : 9780997593587
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sun Seekers written by Ananda Pellerin and published by Atelier Aditions. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunshine and nature: California as a beacon of better health Since the mid-19th century, the idea of California has lured many waves of migrants. Here, writer and editor Lyra Kilston explores a less examined attraction: the region's promise of better health. From ailing families seeking a miracle climate cure to iconoclasts and dropouts pursuing a remedy to societal corruption, the abundance of sunshine and untamed nature around the small but growing Los Angeles area offered them refuge and inspiration. In the wild west of medical practice, eclectic nature-cure treatments gained popularity. The source for this trend can be traced to the mountains and cold-water springs of Europe, where early sanatoriums were built to offer the natural cures of sun, air, water and diet; this sanatorium architecture was exported to the West Coast from Central Europe, and began to impact other types of building. Sun Seekers: The Cure of Californiaconstitutes the second volume of The Illustrated America(following 2016's Old Glory), Atelier Éditions' ongoing series excavating America's cultural past. Lyra Kilstonis a writer and editor focused on architecture, history, design and urbanism. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, Time, Wiredand Hyperallergic, among other publications. She was on the curatorial team of Overdrive: LA Constructs the Future, 1940-1990, exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Building Museum.

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Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Publications of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register, Los Angeles written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George H. Kress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Medical Profession of Southern California written by George H. Kress and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Henry Kress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
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Download or read book A History of the medical profession of Southern California written by George Henry Kress and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: