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The Void, The Grid & The Sign: Traversing The Great Basin
William L. Fox
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Description for The Void, The Grid & The Sign: Traversing The Great Basin
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; JFS; RGC; RGV; WTH; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
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 no finer voice than that of William Fox. Fox’s book is divided into the three sections of the title. In \u201cThe Void,\u201d he leads us through the Great Basin landscape, investigating our visual response to it—a pattern of mountains and valleys on a scale of such magnitude and emptiness and undifferentiated by shape, form, and color that the visual and cognitive expectations of the human mind are confounded and impaired. \u201cThe ... Read more
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 no finer voice than that of William Fox. Fox’s book is divided into the three sections of the title. In \u201cThe Void,\u201d he leads us through the Great Basin landscape, investigating our visual response to it—a pattern of mountains and valleys on a scale of such magnitude and emptiness and undifferentiated by shape, form, and color that the visual and cognitive expectations of the human mind are confounded and impaired. \u201cThe ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874176186
SKU
V9780874176186
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