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Barnstorming the prairies : how aerial vision shaped the Midwest /
"To Midwesterners tucked into small towns or farms early in the twentieth century, the landscape of the American heartland reached the horizon--and then imagination had to provide what lay beyond. But when aviation took off and scenes of the Midwest were no longer earthbound, the Midwestern lan...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2015]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.