Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907

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Few regions rival the magnificence of California's Monterey Peninsula. This beauty, together with a mild climate, rich history, and simplicity of lifestyle, encouraged the development of one of the nation's foremost art colonies. From 1875 to the first years of the twentieth century, artists were drawn to the towns of Monterey, Pacific Grove, and then Carmel. Artists at Continent's End is the first in-depth examination of the importance of the Monterey Peninsula, which during this period came to epitomize California art. Beautifully illustrated with a wealth of images, including many never before published, this book tells the fascinating story of eight principal protagonists--Jules Tavernier, William Keith, Charles Rollo Peters, Arthur Mathews, Evelyn McCormick, Francis McComas, Gottardo Piazzoni, and photographer Arnold Genthe--and a host of secondary players who together established an enduring artistic legacy.
Most previous accounts claim that the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire were the reason that artists began to gather on the Monterey Peninsula. Shields challenges this view by demonstrating that the colony began much earlier--and in Monterey, not Carmel, as often asserted. In an absorbing narrative that combines art and social history, Shields describes how, beginning with Jules Tavernier's arrival in 1875, art produced on the peninsula broke from its East and West Coast antecedents to become increasingly subjective, meditative, and simple. He maintains that, by the turn of the century, the majority of the artists in the region had arrived at a tonal style featuring moody atmospheric effects. Some went one step farther, producing canvases reductive in color and form; others practiced a more colorful impressionism. Created to accompany a major traveling exhibition of works of the Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, Artists at Continent's End places the movement in its art-historical context, comparing its achievement with other approaches including the Barbizon style, art nouveau, arts-and-crafts, and impressionism.
Copub: Crocker Art Museum

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Excellent text, awful book design, mediocre printing.......2006-08-20

Scholars, I believe, will love the text of this book. The general public and scholars will hate the fact that the illustrations are only slightly larger than postage stamps. The captions occupy as much space as the illustrations do. This book was clearly designed by someone who has no idea how illustrations and text should relate to one another. Shame on the University of California Press for destroying an excellent text with poor design and only average printing.

A dissapointment.......2006-08-14

Being very interested in artists featured in this book I placed an order only to find that the repros are relatively scarce and rather small.
Generally speaking, I really can't understand the authors of artist's monographs these days.
It seems as though they have really hard time figuring out what their readers expect.

Well, if some of that odd sort of people read this, I'll solve the great mistery here, once and forever - the readers want NICE, LARGE PICTURES.

For some unfathomable reason, the writers and their editors think that the people who buy artists' monographs are interested in laaarge (often boring) essays, that they LOVE small reproductions and that they're really fond of margins 2"-3" thick.

In a nutshell - if you expect large repros, avoid this book.

Admittedly, the pictures are of high quality, but the averagely sized 4-5 inches. There's lot of repros smaller than that and several larger. In one of the essays you can read 18 pages without seeing a single color illustration.

Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907.(Book review): An article from: California History

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Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907.(Book review): An article from: California History
K.D. Kurutz
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Release Date: 2007-03-22

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Title: Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907.(Book review)
Author: K.D. Kurutz
Publication: California History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 84 Issue: 2 Page: 78(2)

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Part whodunit, part pop culture craziness, Peep Fiction is a testament to the unbelievable popularity of and goofiness surrounding America's #1 selling non-chocolate candy.

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I love how a guinea pig is their school mascot........2006-12-10

I've always ragged on my sister for her Eastertime peep-cravings as I've never enjoyed the candy myself (although they are really cute). So I had to buy her this witty, wacky, sweet book.

Not only is it full of hilarious pictures (like a rendering of the painting "The Scream" with a yellow peep doing the screaming) but it has plenty of text to keep you engaged with the book for a while. Although perusing the book for its photos is a riot in itself. Also, there are several storylines--the peeps' field trip to the museum, Father peep having to pull himself together for work after slightly melting in his cup of coffee, and of course the mystery at the center of the book--so you always wonder what's on the next page.

One of my faves is a pictures of two peeps with a (human-sized) yearbook. One of them says something like, "I love old yearbooks." The other replies, "Dang, how do we open it?"

Why is this so funny? I don't know, it just is!

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The only thing I didn't like about it was the section about Runyoun Peep Jones. I found it a bit inapropriate. Over All, I give it five stars. It was a very good book.

By far the most original, zany Easter tale of 2006.......2006-05-20

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WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE???.......2006-04-08

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