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Landscapes of extraction : the art of mining in the American West / Betsy Fahlman.
LIBRA N8224.M5 L36 2021
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mines and mineral resources in art--Exhibitions.
- Mines and mineral resources in art.
- Mines and mineral resources--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Mines and mineral resources.
- Landscapes in art--Exhibitions.
- Landscapes in art.
- Art, American--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Art, American.
- Art, American--21st century--Exhibitions.
- West (U.S.)--In art--Exhibitions.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Art of mining in the American West
- Place of Publication:
- Munich : Hirmer ; Phoenix, Arizona : Phoenix Art Museum, [2021]
- Summary:
- Landscapes of Extraction" explores the art of mining, the transformative industry of the American West, competing in sublimity and striking colour with the natural scenic landscape on its own terms. These landscapes of enterprise altered the natural environment on a spectacular scale, with open pit mines, coal tips and oil rigs.00How artists portrayed the mining industry in the American West is explored with four essays. Artworks were inspired by the multiple landscapes created by large-scale mining, the towns that grew up around them, and the miners and their families who lived and worked there. The industry shaped communities and landscapes throughout the West: Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah. The book gives a powerful regional narrative that is a fundamental element of national identity played out on a vast geographical scale.00Exhibition: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA (07.11.2021 - 06.03.20220).
- Contents:
- Director's foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Landscapes of extraction : the art of mining in the American West / Betsy Fahlman
- Bound and boundless : New Deal documentation of mining in the American West, 1936-1942 / James R. Swensen
- Coal extraction in Pennsylvania : art and regionalism / Barbara L. Jones
- Overburden / William L. Fox
- Catalogue.
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, November 7, 2021-March 6, 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173).
- Local Notes:
- On the occasion of an exhibtion held at Phoenix Art Museum, November 7, 2021 - March 6, 2022.
- ISBN:
- 9783777437538
- 3777437530
- OCLC:
- 1237354741
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