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245 10 a| Barnstorming the prairiesh| [electronic resource] :b| how aerial vision shaped the Midwest /c| Jason Weems.;

246 30 a| How aerial vision shaped the Midwest;

260 a| Minneapolis ;a| London :b| University of Minnesota Press,c| [2015];

300 a| xxvi, 340 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-323) and index.;

505 0 a| 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 the Broadacre City -- Conclusion: Over the Rainbow.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 2 a| "To Midwesterners tucked into small towns or farms early in the twentieth century, the landscape of the American heartland reached the horizon--and then imagination had to provide what lay beyond. But when aviation took off and scenes of the Midwest were no longer earthbound, the Midwestern landscape was transformed and with it, Jason Weems suggests in this book, the very idea of the Midwest itself. Barnstorming the Prairies offers a panoramic vista of the transformative nature and power of the aerial vision that remade the Midwest in the wake of the airplane. This new perspective from above enabled Americans to conceptualize the region as something other than isolated and unchanging, and to see it instead as a dynamic space where people worked to harmonize the core traditions of America's agrarian character with the more abstract forms of twentieth-century modernity. In the maps and aerial survey photography of the Midwest, as well as the painting, cinema, animation, and suburban landscapes that arose through flight, Weems also finds a different and provocative view of modernity in the making. In representations of the Midwest, from Grant Wood's iconic images to the Prairie style of Frank Lloyd Wright to the design of greenbelt suburbs, Weems reveals aerial vision's fundamental contribution to regional identity--to Midwesternness as we understand it. Reading comparatively across these images, Weems explores how the cognitive and perceptual practices of aerial vision helped to resymbolize the Midwestern landscape amid the technological change and social uncertainty of the early twentieth century"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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

Author/creator	Weems, Jason D., 1973-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Description	xxvi, 340 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	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.

Portion of title	How aerial vision shaped the Midwest
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 the Broadacre City -- Conclusion: Over the Rainbow.
Scope and content	"To Midwesterners tucked into small towns or farms early in the twentieth century, the landscape of the American heartland reached the horizon--and then imagination had to provide what lay beyond. But when aviation took off and scenes of the Midwest were no longer earthbound, the Midwestern landscape was transformed and with it, Jason Weems suggests in this book, the very idea of the Midwest itself. Barnstorming the Prairies offers a panoramic vista of the transformative nature and power of the aerial vision that remade the Midwest in the wake of the airplane. This new perspective from above enabled Americans to conceptualize the region as something other than isolated and unchanging, and to see it instead as a dynamic space where people worked to harmonize the core traditions of America's agrarian character with the more abstract forms of twentieth-century modernity. In the maps and aerial survey photography of the Midwest, as well as the painting, cinema, animation, and suburban landscapes that arose through flight, Weems also finds a different and provocative view of modernity in the making. In representations of the Midwest, from Grant Wood's iconic images to the Prairie style of Frank Lloyd Wright to the design of greenbelt suburbs, Weems reveals aerial vision's fundamental contribution to regional identity--to Midwesternness as we understand it. Reading comparatively across these images, Weems explores how the cognitive and perceptual practices of aerial vision helped to resymbolize the Midwestern landscape amid the technological change and social uncertainty of the early twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-323) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2015032473
ISBN	9780816677504 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN	9780816677511 (paperback : acid-free paper)

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

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