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Out of Site

Survey Science and the Hidden West

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Out of Site explores the invisible landscapes of the American West through the interwoven forces of art and technology over the past 170 years. This interdisciplinary project features an array of visual media, including historical, modern, and contemporary photography, that punctuate a series of essays by art scholars alongside first-person perspectives from artists working “in the field” today. Beginning with the survey era, the publication mines the use of wet-plate photography to penetrate the visible surface of the land to visualize the geological processes, mineral resources, and human histories that formed the foundation of the American empire. With the turn of the century, the relationship between sight and site grew increasingly remote, revealing patterns of large-scale industrial transformation, including the rise of nuclear technology and the American military-industrial complex. And with the modern use of long-range drones, satellites, and other adapted photographic technologies in the postwar years, new matrices of power and surveillance are revealed alongside the human and environmental fallout they often leave behind.Contributors: William L. Fox, Mark Klett, Hillary Mushkin, Britt Salvesen, Kim Stringfellow, Jason Weems, and Will Wilson

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-10-14
Mått152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieOutriders
Antal sidor264
FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
ISBN9780295746777

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Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Övrig scenkonst inom Kultur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

"[A]n engaging, insightful, wonderfully researched social and cultural study of forgotten or ignored participants in United States rodeo."(Great Plains Quarterly) "This is an ambitious book in which Scofield deftly tackles multiple historical contexts, secondary literatures, and political sensitivities...a foundational monograph that will no doubt inspire further research into the diversity of communities and traditions in rodeo and the North American West."(Western Historical Quarterly) "Controversial and dutifully written, Outriders...will be of interest to scholars while causing rodeo fans to think deeply about the conflicts within the myth of the sport."(Montana: The Magazine of Western History) "Outriders offers an alternative perspective about what inspires people to enter rodeo, arguing that many do so as a way to claim a presence in the history of the West, and explores how rodeo gave agency to groups previously omitted from the history of cowboy lifestyle...provocative and contributes a framework for revisiting fringe groups."(Pacific Northwest Quarterly) "Outriders function as a compendium of current cowboy and rodeo research. Scofield takes this research, and—with engaging style—demonstrates how women, Blacks, Gay men, and incarcerated men have chosen the cowboy as a symbol of what it means to be authentically American."(Journal of Popular Culture) "This well-researched book is a good introduction to rodeo beyond the mainstream and will be of interest to rodeo and western scholars, along with a more popular audience unfamiliar with rodeo's more varied history."(Pacific Historical Review)