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Title Observation points : the visual poetics of national parks / Thomas Patin, editor.
Publication Info Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2012], ©2012.


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Contents 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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ISBN 9780816679515 electronic bk.
0816679517 electronic bk.
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Subject Visual communication -- Social aspects -- United States.
National parks and reserves -- Political aspects -- United States.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.
Cultural landscapes -- United States.
Alt author Patin, Thomas, 1958-
Descript 1 online resource (xxvi, 296 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
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Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780816679515 electronic bk.
0816679517 electronic bk.
Subject Visual communication -- Social aspects -- United States.
National parks and reserves -- Political aspects -- United States.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.
Cultural landscapes -- United States.
Alt author Patin, Thomas, 1958-

Subject Visual communication -- Social aspects -- United States.
National parks and reserves -- Political aspects -- United States.
Landscapes -- Social aspects -- United States.
Cultural landscapes -- United States.
Descript 1 online resource (xxvi, 296 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents 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.
Note Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
Alt author Patin, Thomas, 1958-
ISBN 9780816679515 electronic bk.
0816679517 electronic bk.
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