The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life
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The American Lawn: Surface of Everyday Life reveals the lawn as a domestic symbol, civic showplace, economic force, and national icon. Bungalows in tract developments, suburban corporate headquarters, and the White House are all alike in that they sit behind a lawn: a carefully contrived patch of “nature” that lies open to the sky and to a multitude of uses and(...)
Main galleries, octagonal gallery, and hall cases
articles
No Parks?
Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
25 May 2017
No Parks?
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Are parks bad? These quarantined bits of land and water speak to a confused desire for some kind of “nature”—and they might be good for our health—but do they also serve to excuse our continued bad behaviour? Parks are not innocent. City parks are real estate assets and urban “amenities” created by planners, landscape architects, hydrological engineers, police(...)
Mel Ziegler: Growing Concern
The front garden is a sign, a place both public and private, conveying the convictions and values of the households they frame. Growing Concern, a grass relief in Baile Park by American artist Mel Ziegler (b.1956), represents the North American obsession with the lawn. The artist considers the cultural obsession with the growth of our lawns to be symbolic of the taming(...)
Baile Park
16 June 1998 to 8 November 1998
Mel Ziegler: Growing Concern
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The front garden is a sign, a place both public and private, conveying the convictions and values of the households they frame. Growing Concern, a grass relief in Baile Park by American artist Mel Ziegler (b.1956), represents the North American obsession with the lawn. The artist considers the cultural obsession with the growth of our lawns to be symbolic of the taming(...)
Baile Park
video
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1 videocassette (VHS) (approximately 79 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. master, 1 videodisc (DVD-R) (79 min., 44 sec.) : sound, color ; 12 cm consultation copy
[1998]
La pelouse comme théâtre : pastoralisme et espace urbain.
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1 videocassette (VHS) (approximately 79 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. master, 1 videodisc (DVD-R) (79 min., 44 sec.) : sound, color ; 12 cm consultation copy
video
[1998]
books
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1 folded sheet (16 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 36 x 72 cm folded to 18 x 18 cm
Montréal, Québec, Canada : Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [1998]
Surface du quotidien : la pelouse en Amérique, du 16 juin au 8 novembre 1998.
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1 folded sheet (16 pages) : illustrations (some color) ; 36 x 72 cm folded to 18 x 18 cm
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Montréal, Québec, Canada : Centre Canadien d'Architecture/Canadian Centre for Architecture, [1998]
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64 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm.
Paris : Éditions B2, [2011], ©2011
La pelouse américaine en guerre : de Pearl Harbor à la crise des missiles, 1941-1961 / Beatriz Colomina ; traduction, Hélène Sirven, Patrick Thomas, Shannon Gilson et Nikola Jankovic.
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64 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm.
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Paris : Éditions B2, [2011], ©2011
archives
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18 items : illustrations (some color) ; 142 cm or smaller
Surface du quotidien : la pelouse en Amérique = The American lawn : surface of everyday life : exhibition products, 1998.
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18 items : illustrations (some color) ; 142 cm or smaller
archives
audio
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1 audiocassette (DAT) (approximately 35 min.) ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape. master
[1998]
The American lawn : surface conflicts.
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1 audiocassette (DAT) (approximately 35 min.) ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape. master
audio
[1998]
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Bavard, le gazon.
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1 audiocassette (DAT) (approximately 63 min.) ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape. master
[1998]
Bavard, le gazon.
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1 audiocassette (DAT) (approximately 63 min.) ; 2 7/8 x 2 1/8 in., 1/8 in. tape. master
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[1998]