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Timed with the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) of 1915, Jewel City presents a large and representative selection of artworks from the fair, emphasizing the variety of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints that greeted attendees. Notably, the PPIE included the first American presentations of Italian Futurism, Austrian Expressionism, and Hungarian avant-garde painting, and there were also major displays of paintings by prominent Americans, especially those working in the Impressionist style. This lavishly illustrated catalogue features works by masters such as Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Robert Henri, Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Umberto Boccioni, and many more.
List of contents
Foreword (Colin B. Bailey)
Lenders to the Exhibition
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “A Beautiful Jewel Set in the Turquoise of the Sea” (James A. Ganz)
THE SPIRIT OF THE EXPOSITION
Gem of the Golden Age of World’s Fairs (Laura A. Ackley)
Power of Beauty: Bernard Maybeck’s Palace of Fine Arts (Victoria Kastner)
The Classical Ideal in the New Athens (Renée Dreyfus)
Harmony and Discord in the Murals (Anthony W. Lee)
AMERICAN ART
“A Pageant of American Art”: Constructing Nation and Empire at the Fair (Emma Acker)
Jewels of Light and Color: American Painting in the Palace of Fine Arts (Scott A. Shields)
“Progressing Along Normal, Wholesome Lines”: Modern American Painting (Heidi Applegate)
PRINTMAKING AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Prints at the Exposition (Colleen Terry)
Gallery 34: Contemporary Color Prints (Karin Breuer)
Exposing Photography at the Fair (James A. Ganz)
THE FRENCH PAVILION AND THE ANNEX
The French Pavilion (Martin Chapman)
French Paintings at the Exposition: A Triumph of Diplomacy (Melissa E. Buron)
A Debut of Hungarian Art in America (Gergely Barki)
Ground Plan and Floor Plans
Chronology
Catalogue of the Exhibition
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the author
James A. Ganz ist Kurator der Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts am Museum der Schönen Künste in San Francisco.
Summary
Presents a large and representative selection of artworks from the fair, emphasizing the variety of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints that greeted attendees. This book focuses on the works of art that were scattered among the venues of the exposition-the most comprehensive art exhibition ever shown on the West Coast.
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"The editors of this densely illustrated volume have succeeded in describing the elaborateness of the PPIE production and the profound historic and cultural relevance of the entire exposition. VERDICT: Fascinating throughout, this is a definitive account of a historic San Francisco milepost and the development of its cultural firmament."
