Egotopia : narcissism and the new American landscape / John Miller ; with a foreword by Ashley Montagu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, John, 1946 March 11-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narcissism--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Narcissism.

Landscapes--United States--Psychological aspects--History--20th century.

Landscapes.

Landscapes--United States--History--20th century.

United States--Civilization--1970-.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, [Alabama] ; London, [England] : University Alabama Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Egotopia explains why individual political and economic interests have eclipsed aesthetic considerations in the rampant billboards, malls, and urban sprawl of the New American Landscape Egotopia begins where other critiques of the American landscape end: identifying the physical ugliness that defines and homogenizes America's cities, suburbs, and.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Dark Satanic Malls

2. The New Man: Mimesis and Immanence

3. The New American Landscape: Ego and Egotopia

4. The Myth of Travel and the Necessity of Motion

5. The Aesthetics of the New Man: Beauty R Us

6. Billboards: Dominant Visual Modality of the New American Landscape

7. The Commercialization of Public Space

8. The American Landscape That Might Have Been

9. The Innate Philistinism of the Environmental Movement

10. Democracy, Therapy, and the Triumph of Bad Taste

11. Breaking the Spell: The Future of the New American Landscape

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9130-4

0-585-09806-9

OCLC:

966768795