Eccentric California

2005 Travel

Author : Jan Friedman
Release : 2005
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 265/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Eccentric California written by Jan Friedman. This book was released on 2005. 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.

Eccentric Modernisms

2017 Art

Author : Tirza True Latimer
Release : 2017
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 866/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Eccentric Modernisms written by Tirza True Latimer. This book was released on 2017. 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.

Only in California

1993 History

Author : Janet Hearne
Release : 1993
Genre : History
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Download or read book Only in California written by Janet Hearne. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to exalt the oxymoron that is California culture. CA has more people, bowling alleys, and the worst air pollution than any other state in the Union. With anecdotes, stats, license plates, epitaphs, and ad slogans, this unique collection proves CA is indeed the country's "most altered state". Cartoons and photos.

Eccentric Britain

2005 Reference

Author : Benedict Le Vay
Release : 2005
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 227/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Eccentric Britain written by Benedict Le Vay. This book was released on 2005. 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.

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