Barnstorming the Prairies : How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Weems, Jason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel.
Social conditions.
Social change.
Regionalism.
Landscapes.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
ART > American > General.
ART > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
TRAVEL/United States/Midwest/West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD)
TRAVEL/United States/Midwest/General.
TRAVEL/United States/Midwest/East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)
Avions > Aspect social > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Photographie aerienne > Aspect social > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Paysages > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Regionalisme > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Social change > Middle West > History > 20th century.
Airplanes > Social aspects > Middle West > History > 20th century.
Aerial photography > Social aspects > Middle West > History > 20th century.
Landscapes > Middle West > History > 20th century.
Regionalism > Middle West > History > 20th century.
Middle West.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Midwest (États-Unis) > Descriptions et voyages.
Middle West > In art.
Middle West > Social conditions > 20th century.
Middle West > Aerial photographs.
Middle West > Description and travel.
History.
Art.
Aerial photographs.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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