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  1. The new heartland
    looking for the American dream
    Author: Giffels, David
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  George F. Thompson Publishing, Staunton, VA

    During the past thirty years, there has emerged throughout America a new kind of urban vision that blends residential/suburban development with large-scale commercial centers. Rolling farmland and country estates that used to surround towns and... more

    Location:
    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
    Inter-library loan:
    No loan of volumes, only paper copies will be sent

     

    During the past thirty years, there has emerged throughout America a new kind of urban vision that blends residential/suburban development with large-scale commercial centers. Rolling farmland and country estates that used to surround towns and cities have given way to vast housing developments that feature nearly identical, hastily built mini-mansions with enormous garages and fancy yards. These are the new bedroom communities for middle-class Americans who commute to urban America where the jobs are.0For the first time, these residential enclaves are linked to big-box shopping complexes where traditional Main Streets of yore have been eclipsed by malls known as "lifestyle centers" filled with national chains whose commercial architecture is a blend of multiple historic periods and styles that create a fanciful display but have no relation to regional traditions. Behind this imagined past era of luxurious consumerism is a ubiquitous culture based on global marketing in which homogenization and conformity have won over the American dream and created a new kind of American heartland. Andrew Borowiec is the first photographer to provide a comprehensive vision of this new American landscape. He directs our attention toward how such development has evolved in his home state of Ohio, a longstanding bellwether for American tastes and values whose citizens have voted for every winning candidate in a presidential election but one since 1944. It's also the place where fast-food companies test-market new products and the place where chewing gum, Teflon, and the first airplane, cash register, gas-powered automobile, traffic signal, and vacuum cleaner were invented

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Borowiec, Andrew
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781938086199; 1938086198
    RVK Categories: AP 94100
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: USA <Motiv>; Haus <Motiv>; Fotografie
    Other subjects: Borowiec, Andrew (1956-)
    Scope: 95 Seiten
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    Edition of 750 hardbound copies
  2. The new heartland - Looking for the American dream
    Contributor: Borowiec, Andrew (FotografIn); Giffels, David (VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  George F. Thompson Publishing, Staunton

    During the past thirty years, there has emerged throughout America a new kind of urban vision that blends residential/suburban development with large-scale commercial centers. Rolling farmland and country estates that used to surround towns and... more

    Location:
    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    During the past thirty years, there has emerged throughout America a new kind of urban vision that blends residential/suburban development with large-scale commercial centers. Rolling farmland and country estates that used to surround towns and cities have given way to vast housing developments that feature nearly identical, hastily built mini-mansions with enormous garages and fancy yards. These are the new bedroom communities for middle-class Americans who commute to urban America where the jobs are.0For the first time, these residential enclaves are linked to big-box shopping complexes where traditional Main Streets of yore have been eclipsed by malls known as "lifestyle centers" filled with national chains whose commercial architecture is a blend of multiple historic periods and styles that create a fanciful display but have no relation to regional traditions. Behind this imagined past era of luxurious consumerism is a ubiquitous culture based on global marketing in which homogenization and conformity have won over the American dream and created a new kind of American heartland. Andrew Borowiec is the first photographer to provide a comprehensive vision of this new American landscape. He directs our attention toward how such development has evolved in his home state of Ohio, a longstanding bellwether for American tastes and values whose citizens have voted for every winning candidate in a presidential election but one since 1944. It's also the place where fast-food companies test-market new products and the place where chewing gum, Teflon, and the first airplane, cash register, gas-powered automobile, traffic signal, and vacuum cleaner were invented

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Borowiec, Andrew (FotografIn); Giffels, David (VerfasserIn von ergänzendem Text)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781938086199; 1938086198
    RVK Categories: AP 94100
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Borowiec, Andrew; Fotografie; USA <Motiv>; Haus <Motiv>;
    Scope: 95 Seiten