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Imaging Hoover Dam: The Making of a Cultural Icon
Anthony F. Arrigo
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Description for Imaging Hoover Dam: The Making of a Cultural Icon
Hardcover. A symbol of American power, crafted by innumerable representations Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, maps. BIC Classification: RNF; THRD; TNFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
The mighty Hoover Dam, starting as a dream of land developers and farmers, became the most ambitious civil engineering project of the Great Depression. This landmark in the middle of the Mojave Desert, holding back the largest man-made lake in America, also became, like Mount Rushmore or the Empire State Building, a visual and cultural icon. The power and meanings of this icon came not through a single image but via myriad visual representations, in government propaganda, advertising, journalism, and art. Even before it was built, these images were used to shape the public’s perception of the project and frame ... Read more
The mighty Hoover Dam, starting as a dream of land developers and farmers, became the most ambitious civil engineering project of the Great Depression. This landmark in the middle of the Mojave Desert, holding back the largest man-made lake in America, also became, like Mount Rushmore or the Empire State Building, a visual and cultural icon. The power and meanings of this icon came not through a single image but via myriad visual representations, in government propaganda, advertising, journalism, and art. Even before it was built, these images were used to shape the public’s perception of the project and frame ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Reno, United States
ISBN
9780874179538
SKU
V9780874179538
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99-15
About Anthony F. Arrigo
Anthony F. Arrigo is assistant professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA, where he specializes in visual communication, rhetorical theory, and cultural studies.
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