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Barnstorming the Prairies - How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest (Paperback)
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Barnstorming the Prairies - How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest (Paperback)
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To Midwesterners tucked into small towns or farms early in the
twentieth century, the landscape of the American heartland reached
the horizon-and then imagination had to provide what lay beyond.
But when aviation took off and scenes of the Midwest were no longer
earthbound, the Midwestern landscape was transformed and with it,
Jason Weems suggests in this book, the very idea of the Midwest
itself. Barnstorming the Prairies offers a panoramic vista of the
transformative nature and power of the aerial vision that remade
the Midwest in the wake of the airplane. This new perspective from
above enabled Americans to conceptualize the region as something
other than isolated and unchanging, and to see it instead as a
dynamic space where people worked to harmonize the core traditions
of America's agrarian character with the more abstract forms of
twentieth-century modernity. In the maps and aerial survey
photography of the Midwest, as well as the painting, cinema,
animation, and suburban landscapes that arose through flight, Weems
also finds a different and provocative view of modernity in the
making. In representations of the Midwest, from Grant Wood's iconic
images to the Prairie style of Frank Lloyd Wright to the design of
greenbelt suburbs, Weems reveals aerial vision's fundamental
contribution to regional identity-to Midwesternness as we
understand it. Reading comparatively across these images, Weems
explores how the cognitive and perceptual practices of aerial
vision helped to resymbolize the Midwestern landscape amid the
technological change and social uncertainty of the early twentieth
century.
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