California Mexicana: Missions to Murals, 1820–1930

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Following the U.S.-Mexican War (1846–1848), lands that had for centuries belonged to New Spain, and later to Mexico, were transformed into the thirty-first state in the USA. This process was once facilitated by visual artists, who forged distinct pictorial motifs and symbols to ascertain the state’s new identity. This collective cultural inheritance of the Spanish and Mexican periods forms a central current of California history but has been only sparingly studied by cultural and art historians. California Mexicana focuses for the primary time at the range and vitality of artistic traditions growing out of the original amalgam of Mexican and American culture that evolved in Southern California from 1820 through 1930. A study of these early regional manifestations provides the crucial matrix out of which emerge later art and cultural issues. Featuring painters, printmakers, photographers, and mapmakers from both sides of the border, this collection demonstrates how they made the Mexican presence visible of their art. This beautifully illustrated catalogue addresses two key areas of inquiry: how Mexico changed into California, and how the visual arts reflected the shifting identity that grew out of that transformation.
 
Published in association with the Laguna Art Museum, and as a part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
 
Exhibition dates:
Laguna Art Museum: October 15, 2017–January 14, 2018

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