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Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle
Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds in satisfying our fantasies of wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consum...
Road trips to Las Vegas are the occasion for this entertaining meditation on the quintessentially American experience of driving across the desert. Wi...
Traversing The Great Basin
This is a story that few know, but those who do are its disciples. The story, of the highest and driest of all American deserts, the Great Basin, has ...
Looking into the Emptiest Continent
How does the human mind transform space into place, or land into landscape? For more than three decades, William L. Fox has looked at empty landscapes...
The most comprehensive account available of Michael Heizer's art by a writer and curator who has critical experience with the artist and his work. Mic...
Two Centuries of Scottish Rite Freemasonry in America's Southern Jurisdiction
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Used for everything from geographic evaluation to secret spy missions, aerial photography has a rich and storied history, ably recounted here in Photo...
It is the only absolute desert in North America, a four-hundred-square-mile dry lake bed so desolate that nothing ever grows there. Vast and featurele...
Poems
Mark Klett, Photography, and the Reinvention of Landscape
Examines the history of photography in the American West and of Klett's role in documenting the landscape....
Created in remote parts of the world--Iceland, Utah, Tunisia, Greenland, New Mexico--Diane Tuft's photographs include a suite of iconic American Land ...
Photographs
Linda Connor's world-renowned photographs are global and sublime. For thirty years she has created distinctively glowing, contemplative images of natu...
The Myth of the Empty
Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Fremont expedition first surve...
Topologies
The first comprehensive monograph on the acclaimed American artist and architect, known for her environmental works and memorials that distill a tranq...
After 45 Years, Counterforce is on the Horizon
This book offers a 21st-century manifesto from the pioneers of the eco-art movement. Since the 1970s Helen and Newton Harrison have been creating art ...
A Pilbara Project Exhibition
With this exhibition of Larry Mitchell's Pilbara paintings, we have the opportunity to witness the encounter of one of australia's leading visual arti...
A firsthand account of NASA's training exercises on Haughton Crater in the Canadian High Arctic, one of a few analog environments used for anticipated...
Reclaimed
John Grade's drawings, sculptures and installations are weathered, marked, worn and disintegrated. Made of reclaimed wood or paper, the works are buri...
Evocative images of buildings and places, seen from the American road. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl--with its predictable landsca...
The Atomic Bomb and Wendover Air Base
"In Hiroshima, Japan a twisted steel dome is grim reminder of a city destroyed by the first atomic bomb used in warfare. It is a history no one dares ...
Here and There
An Inhabited West
The Quandaries of a Liberal Protestant Mind, 1914-1939
Willard L. Sperry (1882-1954) was dean of the Harvard Divinity School for thirty years during a period of major adjustment in liberal Protestant theol...
San Francisco-based photographer Light delivers the fourth book in his series of aerial surveys of the American West, taking viewers into the vast geo...