Worlds away : new suburban landscapes /
Worlds away : new suburban landscapes /
edited by Andrew Blauvelt.
- First edition.
- 333 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm
Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 16-Aug. 17, 2008 and at the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Penn., Oct. 4, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our sprawling, supersize utopia -- Learning from Levittown: a conversation with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown -- In praise of chain stores: they aren't destroying local flavor--they're providing variety and comfort -- The view through the picture window: surveillance and entrapment motifs in suburban film -- Intermediate landscapes: constructing suburbia in postwar American photography -- Suburban aesthetics is not an oxymoron -- New urbanism's subversive marketing -- Campus, estate, and park: lawn culture comes to the corporation -- The afterlife of big boxes: a conversation with Julia Christensen -- The Terrazzo jungle: fifty years ago, the mall was born. America would never be the same -- Learning from the sprawl -- A lexicon of suburban neologisms.
0935640908 9780935640908
2007051213
Suburbs in art--Exhibitions
Suburban life in art--Exhibitions
Art, American--20th century--Exhibitions
Art, American--21st century--Exhibitions
N8251.S56 / W67 2008
704.94930774
Catalog of an exhibition at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 16-Aug. 17, 2008 and at the Heinz Architectural Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Penn., Oct. 4, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Our sprawling, supersize utopia -- Learning from Levittown: a conversation with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown -- In praise of chain stores: they aren't destroying local flavor--they're providing variety and comfort -- The view through the picture window: surveillance and entrapment motifs in suburban film -- Intermediate landscapes: constructing suburbia in postwar American photography -- Suburban aesthetics is not an oxymoron -- New urbanism's subversive marketing -- Campus, estate, and park: lawn culture comes to the corporation -- The afterlife of big boxes: a conversation with Julia Christensen -- The Terrazzo jungle: fifty years ago, the mall was born. America would never be the same -- Learning from the sprawl -- A lexicon of suburban neologisms.
0935640908 9780935640908
2007051213
Suburbs in art--Exhibitions
Suburban life in art--Exhibitions
Art, American--20th century--Exhibitions
Art, American--21st century--Exhibitions
N8251.S56 / W67 2008
704.94930774