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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798061303321

Autore

Weems Jason D. <1973->

Titolo

Barnstorming the prairies : how aerial vision shaped the Midwest / / Jason Weems

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015

2015

ISBN

1-4529-4490-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (380 p.)

Disciplina

917.704

Soggetti

Regionalism - Middle West - History - 20th century

Landscapes - Middle West - History - 20th century

Aerial photography - Social aspects - Middle West - History - 20th century

Airplanes - Social aspects - Middle West - History - 20th century

Social change - Middle West - History - 20th century

Middle West Description and travel

Middle West Aerial photographs

Middle West Social conditions 20th century

Middle West In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; 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 Broadacre City; Conclusion: Over the Rainbow; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W