Observation Points : The Visual Poetics of National Parks /

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"National parks are the places that present ideas of nature to Americans: Zion, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone bring to mind quintessential and awe-inspiring wilderness. By examining how rhetoric--particularly visual rhetoric--has worked to shape our views of nature and the "natural&q...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Patin, Thomas, 1958- (Autor, Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Visual communication > Social aspects.
Landscapes > Social aspects.
Cultural landscapes.
ARCHITECTURE > Landscape.
ART > History > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Paysages culturels > États-Unis.
Paysages > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Parcs nationaux > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Communication visuelle > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Cultural landscapes > United States.
Landscapes > Social aspects > United States.
National parks and reserves > Political aspects > United States.
Visual communication > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Naturalizing rhetoric / Thomas Patin
  • Being here, looking there: Mediating vistas in the national parks of the contemporary American West / Robert M. Bednar
  • Remembering Zion: Architectural encounters in a national park / Gregory Clark
  • Roadside wilderness: U.S. national park design in the 1950s and 1960s / Peter Peters
  • Critical vehicles crash the scene: Spectacular nature and popular spectacle at the Grand Canyon / Mark Neumann
  • How German is the American West? The legacy of Caspar David Friedrich's visual poetics in American landscape painting / Sabine Wilke
  • Yellowstone National Park in metaphor: Place and actor representations in visitor publications / David A. Tschida
  • Image/text/geography: Yellowstone and the spatial rhetoric of landscape / Gareth John
  • Can patriotism be carved in stone? A critical analysis of Mount Rushmore's orientation films / Teresa Bergman
  • Thinking like a mountain: Mount Rushmore's gaze / William Chaloupka
  • George Catlin's wilderness utopia / Albert Boime
  • Memorials and mourning: Recovering native resistance in and to the monuments of the nation / Stephen Germic
  • America's best idea: Environmental public memory and the rhetoric of conservation civics / Cindy Spurlock
  • America in ruins: Parks, poetics, and politics
  • Thomas Patin.

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