Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938-2008 - Couverture rigide

Stringfellow, Kim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1935195050 ISBN 13 : 9781935195054

Editeur : Center for American Places,US, 2010

Synopsis

The Morongo Basin of Southern California's Mojave Desert is dotted with unusual buildings and parcels of land that developed as a result of the Small Tract Act of 1938. The structures, which are remnants of a mid-century homestead movement, have become a lightning rod for seemingly disparate communities wishing to claim and inhabit the desert landscape. In "Jackrabbit Homestead", Kim Stringfellow, an artist and writer known for her cross-disciplinary work addressing the American West, land use, and the built environment, documents the character of the homestead architecture and the homesteaders who built it. Alongside her compelling photographs, she explores the origins of the Homestead Act, the Public Land Survey, and other U.S. public land policies that have shaped our perception and long-term management of the California desert. Richly illustrated with historical drawings and Stringfellow's color photographs, "Jackrabbit Homestead" is an essential document of American landscape history.

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À propos de l'auteur

"Stringfellow has invented her own genre, a fusion of cultural geography/tour guide and artist's book. These books are unique as environmental/local histories that are up to date, readable (!), and imaginatively illustrated. I'd welcome her into my neighborhood any time." - Lucy Lippard, author of Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century Kim Stringfellow is an associate professor in the School of Art, Design, and Art History at San Diego State University. She is also the author of Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center for American Places,US
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1935195050
• ISBN 13: 9781935195054
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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