Jason Weems

Barnstorming the Prairies

How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest

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Produktbeschreibung

Jason Weems is associate professor of art history at the University of California, Riverside.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 201mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 953g
• ISBN-13: 9780816677511
• ISBN-10: 0816677514
• Artikelnr.: 42650185

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Aeriality and Midwesternness
1. Pioneering Visions: The Midwestern Grid, the Atlas, and an Aerial
Imagination
2. Managerial Mosaics: New Deal Aerial Photography and the Marshaling of
Rural America
3. Adaptive Aeriality: Grant Wood, the Regional Landscape, and Modernity
4. Jeffersonian Urbanism: Frank Lloyd Wright, Aerial Pattern, and the
Broadacre City
Conclusion: Over the Rainbow
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index