Beer Can by the Highway

Essays on What's American about America

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

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First published in 1961, The Beer Can by the Highway takes a provocative, wide-ranging look at America's ever-changing physical and intellectual landscapes, from advertising and jazz to Manhattan's skyline and the prairies of the Midwest. The Johns Hopkins edition features a foreword by Ralph Ellison, who praises the work as "one that springs from deep within that rich segment of the American grain which gave us the likes of Emerson and Whitman, Horatio Greenough and Constance Rourke-yes, and Mark Twain."

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1988-06-26
Mått127 x 203 x 22 mm
Vikt312 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor264
FörlagJohns Hopkins University Press
ISBN9780801836534

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ForewordPrefaceChapter 1. Preliminary Glance at an American LandscapeChapter 2. The Dispraising of AmericaChapter 3. What's "American" About AmericaChapter 4. The Curriculum of DiscoveryChapter 5. Liberal Crafts and Illiberal ArtsChapter 6. Farewell, Architecture!Chapter 7. What is "American" in Architecture and Design?Chapter 8. Up Tails AllChapter 9. Soft Sell, Hard Sell, Padded SellChapter 10. The Beer Can by the HighwayAcknowledgmentsIndex