{"product_id":"observation-points-the-visual-poetics-of-national-parks-paperback-softback-9780816651467","title":"Observation Points; The Visual Poetics of National Parks (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816651467","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eObservation Points\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Visual Poetics of National Parks\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Patin (Edited by), Robert M. Bednar (Contributions by), Teresa Bergman (Contributions by), Albert Boime (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816651467\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 April 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNational parks are the places that present ideas of nature to Americans: Zion, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Yellowstone bring to mind quintessential and awe-inspiring wilderness. By examining how rhetoric-particularly visual rhetoric-has worked to shape our views of nature and the “natural” place of humans, \u003ci\u003eObservation Points \u003c\/i\u003eoffers insights into questions of representation, including the formation of national identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Thomas Patin reveals, the term “nature” is artificial and unstable, in need of constant maintenance and reconstruction. The process of stabilizing its representation, he notes, is unavoidably political. America’s national parks and monuments show how visual rhetoric operates to naturalize and stabilize representations of the environment. As contributors demonstrate, visual rhetoric is often transparent, structuring experience while remaining hidden in plain sight. Scenic overlooks and turnouts frame views for tourists. Visitor centers, with their display cases and photographs and orientation films, provide their own points of view-literally and figuratively. Guidebooks, brochures, and other publications present still other ways of seeing. At the same time, images of America’s “natural” world have long been employed for nationalist and capitalist ends, linking expansionism with American greatness and the “natural” triumph of European Americans over Native Americans.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe essays collected here cover a wide array of subjects, including park architecture, landscape painting, public ceremonies, and techniques of display. Contributors are from an equally broad range of disciplines-art history, geography, museum studies, political science, American studies, and many other fields. Together they advance a provocative new visual genealogy of representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: Robert M. Bednar, Southwestern U, Georgetown, Texas; Teresa Bergman, U of the Pacific; Albert Boime, UCLA; William Chaloupka, Colorado State U; Gregory Clark, Brigham Young U; Stephen Germic, Rocky Mountain College; Gareth John, St. Cloud State U, Minnesota; Mark Neumann, Northern Arizona U; Peter Peters, Maastricht U; Cindy Spurlock, Appalachian State U; David A. Tschida, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire; Sabine Wilke, U of Washington. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Naturalizing Rhetoric\u003cbr\u003eThomas Patin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Being Here, Looking There: Mediating Vistas in the National Parks \u003cbr\u003eof the Contemporary American West\u003cbr\u003eRobert M. Bednar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. Remembering Zion: Architectural Encounters in a National Park\u003cbr\u003eGregory Clark\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e3. Roadside Wilderness: U.S. National Park Design in the 1950s and 1960s\u003cbr\u003ePeter Peters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4. Critical Vehicles Crash the Scene: Spectacular Nature and Popular Spectacle at the \u003cbr\u003eGrand Canyon\u003cbr\u003eMark Neumann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e5. How German Is the American West? The Legacy of Caspar David Friedrich’s \u003cbr\u003eVisual Poetics in American Landscape Painting\u003cbr\u003eSabine Wilke\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6. Yellowstone National Park in Metaphor: Place and Actor Representations \u003cbr\u003ein Visitor Publications\u003cbr\u003eDavid A. Tschida\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e7. Image\/Text\/Geography: Yellowstone and the Spatial Rhetoric of Landscape\u003cbr\u003eGareth John\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8. Can Patriotism Be Carved in Stone? A Critical Analysis of Mount Rushmore’s \u003cbr\u003eOrientation Films\u003cbr\u003eTeresa Bergman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e9. Thinking like a Mountain: Mount Rushmore’s Gaze\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Chaloupka\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e10. George Catlin’s Wilderness Utopia\u003cbr\u003eAlbert Boime\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e11. Memorials and Mourning: Recovering Native Resistance in and to the Monuments \u003cbr\u003eof the Nation\u003cbr\u003eStephen Germic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e12. America’s Best Idea: Environmental Public Memory and the Rhetoric of \u003cbr\u003eConservation Civics\u003cbr\u003eCindy Spurlock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13. America in Ruins: Parks, Poetics, and Politics\u003cbr\u003eThomas Patin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52739385721112,"sku":"9780816651467","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/observation-points-the-visual-poetics-of-national-parks-paperback-softback-9780816651467","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}