Titre et auteur:

Modern American landscapes / edited by Mick Gidley, Robert Lawson-Peebles ; with contributions from Mick Gidley [and others].

Publication:

Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1995.

Description:

viii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Série(s):

European contributions to American studies ; 26

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Mick Gidley -- American ideas of landscape / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- The landscape of democratic sovereignty: Whitman and James go awalking / William Boelhower -- The electrified landscape: a new version of the sublime / David E. Nye -- "So nocturnal, so bacchanal": the sexual theater of New York at night / William Sharpe -- Winter aesthetics: the closed field in American modernist poetry / Tim Armstrong -- Silence, grandeur: Emil Otto Hoppe's popular American landscapes / Mick Gidley -- Mapping out America: the W.P.A. guidebooks and the American scene in the 1930s / Christine Bold -- "This is America": the American pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair / Robert W. Rydell -- Beyond Shakespeare's American fable / Robert Lawson-Peebles -- Caves and mountaintops: American landscapes in Toni Morrison's novels / Maria Diedrich -- Space rider: Wright Morris and the Fork River space project / Simone Vauthier -- Cruising the information superhighway: computer-mediated communication, cultural landscapes and the struggle over meaning / Neil Badmington.

ISBN:

9053832084 (paperback)
9789053832080 (paperback)

Sujet:

Arts, American 20th century.
Landscapes in art.
Arts américains 20e siècle.
Paysages dans l'art.
Arts, American
Landschaft
Literatur
Landschappen.
Culturele aspecten.
Landscape United States History.
Landscapes in literature.
Landscapes in motion pictures.
United States In art.
United States
USA

Classification/genre:

Art

Vedettes secondaires:

Gidley, M. (Mick)
Lawson-Peebles, Robert.
European contributions to American studies ; 26.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 107204
Cote: N8214.5.U5 M6 (ID:96-B1011)
Statut: Disponible