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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"American Landscape"”.
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Rocks in the American landscape
… ago. The English adapted Oriental ideas on the landscape uses of rocks to produce the typical English rock garden. In the United States, rocks were used very sparingly before 1900 as landscape enriching elements. During the 1920's the English rock garden became popular here, but soon lost its …
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Recovering the wall : enclosure, ethics and the American landscape
… implications for the material and social landscape. Beginning to question it, and suggesting practice in light of these questions, is the goal of this essay. The essay is divided into three parts. The first considers allotment in several ancient, medieval, and early modern societies. It …
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Transcendentalist Aesthetics in Emerson, Peirce, and Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
… S. Peirce and the art of the nineteenth-century American landscape painters of the Hudson River School and Luminism. The primary overall goal is to present and argue for a Transcendentalist Aesthetics by making use of the philosophy of Emerson and Peirce, together with the writings and landscapes …
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Nature's Manifestation: How Architecture Can Entice Exploration of the American Landscape
… of the natural world. Assertion While the early Americans utilized "Manifest Destiny" for their own conquests, the manifestation of these architectural elements alludes to the buildings propensity to instill a sense of wonder in the observer. This building strives to present a new Manifest …
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The Evolving American Landscape in Edgar Lee Masters's [Sic] Spoon River Anthology
… of two myths that have powerfully shaped American society: the Garden and the Wasteland. A careful reading on the Spoon River Anthology informed by secondary texts on Masters' writing and others that discuss the mythic underpinnings of American society shows that Masters achieves a complex …
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From the Museum of Lost Smells
… isolation, and coming-of-age in the contemporary American landscape.</p>
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"The Best Soil of Their Hearts": Protestant Explorations of Catholic Spirituality in Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne
… anti-Romanism prevalent in nineteenth-century American political and religious culture, these authors engaged deeply with Catholic sacramentality, discovering an appeal in the Catholic faith tradition that provided possible answers to questions about spirituality in an increasingly pluralistic …
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When You Find Us We Will Be Gone
… several themes: place and identity in the American landscape; public and private conflicts in Tibet; the role of art in the Holocaust. The stories are set in America, Croatia, Japan, Germany, and Tibet, where the characters imbibe strangeness from their surroundings and in doing so chart …
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Translating sex culture: Transnational sex education and the U.S.-Swedish relationship, 1910s–1960s
… Relationship, 1910s–1960s” traces the history of American-Swedish sex education relations; the exchange, modification, and reception of sex instruction material; and the opponents of the subject who connected sex education to larger cultural issues. I demonstrate that from the 1910s–1960s, the …
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The Place of the Past: Images of an Outdoor History Museum
Hundreds of outdoor history museums dot the American landscape and annually draw millions of visitors through their gates. Their attributes as a unique place type, as well as the corresponding place images of them held by their visitors, are of particular importance in understanding their spatial, …
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The Influence of Urban Form, Socio-Demographics, And Transit-Oriented Development on Journey-to-Work Characteristics
… automobile-oriented city, one that dominates the American landscape, is no longer sustainable. Such concerns demand a search for ways to promote alternative forms of travel. To this end, this study employs a multiple linear regression analysis in order to determine the relationships between the …
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THE AWW
… specific concepts that developed out of the American landscape tradition and assimilates the banal subjects into a formal framework. The subjects are monumentalized and romanticized in order to question, not the importance of the objects, but the relevance of the sublime.</p>
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Decomposing the grid
The American landscape chronicles the dreams of an agricultural nation through a series of regular lines en-scribed on a flat plane. Each 6 mile x 6 mile square frames a lose-lose situation in which government subsidies encourage intensive monocultural production resulting in loss of topsoil, …
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A Living Vehicle
… as part of the interstate system built into the American landscape. A living vehicle provides the ability to craft a lifestyle around mobility, and will support the situation of living on the road for extended periods of time with many potential benefits over traditional travel. First and …
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SubUrban Highrise
… These homes are very recognizable in the American landscape. Suburban homes are 1-2 stories with a garage, a yard, and tree-lined streets. Urban homes are many apartments stacked on top of each other within a single building, each with a small balcony and a parking garage underneath. What …
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Reading Placelessness and Suburbanization in Richard Yates
… As suburbanization began to take its toll on the American landscape, a new, increasingly placeless environment started to emerge; endless subdivisions of identical houses, commercial strip developments, shopping centers, and movie plazas sprang up, places which not only looked alike, but felt …
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Reading Placelessness and Suburbanization in Richard Yates
… As suburbanization began to take its toll on the American landscape, a new, increasingly placeless environment started to emerge; endless subdivisions of identical houses, commercial strip developments, shopping centers, and movie plazas sprang up, places which not only looked alike, but felt …
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The monumental turn: metonymic synergy between the Statue of Liberty and 'The New Colussus"
… our shores. The monument is a unique icon on the American landscape for several reasons, including its mutability, its synthetic ability to offer multiple meanings for public memorializing, its gendered structure and voice, and the role of the sonnet in generating a “turn” in how Americans …
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From Country to Country Club: the Landscapes of Walker Percy
… Percy emerged on the literary scene in 1961, the American landscape had begun to transform in new and dramatic ways. As more and more Americans moved from city centers to suburban developments, Percy found that, in more ways than one, the center would not hold. This American cultural …
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