Author: Automobile Association
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
AA Spiral Guide New York
Author: Automobile Association
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
AA Spiral Guide California
Author: Automobile Association
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598891
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598891
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Great Britain Guide
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749566081
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749566081
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
AA Spiral Guide Boston and New England
Author: Automobile Association
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598884
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598884
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Spiral Jetta
Author: Erin Hogan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226348482
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. “I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out . . . or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn’t magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New YorkTimes Book Review “The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.”—Atlantic “Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”—Kevin Nance, ChicagoSun-Times “One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time.”—June Sawyers, ChicagoTribune “Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.”—New Yorker
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226348482
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Erin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. Spiral Jetta is a chronicle of this journey. A lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s—Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels, Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Michael Heizer’s Double Negative, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. “I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out . . . or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In Spiral Jetta, an unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn’t magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing.”—Tom Vanderbilt, New YorkTimes Book Review “The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.”—Atlantic “Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.”—Kevin Nance, ChicagoSun-Times “One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time.”—June Sawyers, ChicagoTribune “Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.”—New Yorker
AA Spiral Guide Orlando and Florida
Author: Automobile Association
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598822
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
AA Spiral Guide Washington
Author: Automobile Association
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
AA Leisure Guide Peak District
Author: AA Publishing
Publisher: AA Publishing
ISBN: 9780749566920
Category : Peak District (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
SERIES COPY: Fully revised and updated for 2011, these gorgeous guides include color regional mapping, detailed walks, and cycle maps for every not-to-be-missed destination across England, Scotland, and Wales Explore Britain with the AA's Leisure Guide series. Offering national coverage of the best-loved and most popular parts of the country--including rural areas, national parks, heritage coastline, and areas of outstanding natural beauty--the guides are perfect for a week or weekend away. The easy-to-use layouts, detailed area maps, and beautiful photography will inspire you to find both well-known locations and hidden gems you'll want to visit again and again. There are 10 walks, three cycle rides, and two car tours per book, as well as suggested itineraries; reviews of pubs, tea rooms, and local sites of interest; and listings of where to shop, local events, and festivals. Each guide also comes equipped with handy bookmark cover flaps that provide crucial information at just a glance.
Publisher: AA Publishing
ISBN: 9780749566920
Category : Peak District (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
SERIES COPY: Fully revised and updated for 2011, these gorgeous guides include color regional mapping, detailed walks, and cycle maps for every not-to-be-missed destination across England, Scotland, and Wales Explore Britain with the AA's Leisure Guide series. Offering national coverage of the best-loved and most popular parts of the country--including rural areas, national parks, heritage coastline, and areas of outstanding natural beauty--the guides are perfect for a week or weekend away. The easy-to-use layouts, detailed area maps, and beautiful photography will inspire you to find both well-known locations and hidden gems you'll want to visit again and again. There are 10 walks, three cycle rides, and two car tours per book, as well as suggested itineraries; reviews of pubs, tea rooms, and local sites of interest; and listings of where to shop, local events, and festivals. Each guide also comes equipped with handy bookmark cover flaps that provide crucial information at just a glance.
AA Spiral Guide Las Vegas
Author: Automobile Association
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598761
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598761
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
AA Spiral Guide Venice
Author: Automobile Association
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598815
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780749598815
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description