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Playa Works: The Myth Of The Empty (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)
William L. Fox
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Description for Playa Works: The Myth Of The Empty (Environmental Arts and Humanities Series)
Hardcover. In the eight essays collected here, William L. Fox considers the American West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Combining natural history, philosophy and art criticism, he meditates on our aversion to and fascination with the void. Series: Environmental Arts & Humanities S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 colour & 22 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: DNF; RGBA; RN; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 449.
Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Fremont expedition first surveyed them in the early nineteenth century. In these eight brilliant essays, Fox explores many of the major playas of the American ... Read more
Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Fremont expedition first surveyed them in the early nineteenth century. In these eight brilliant essays, Fox explores many of the major playas of the American ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Series
Environmental Arts & Humanities S.
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874175233
SKU
V9780874175233
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About William L. Fox
William L. Fox is the author of six nonfiction books on the cultural geography of the American Southwest, more than a dozen books of poetry, and is currently at work on a book about scientific and artistic images of the Antarctic. His poems have appeared in more than 60 magazines and journals, and he edited the West Coast Poetry Review ... Read more
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