{"product_id":"laurie-brown-recent-terrains-terraforming-the-american-west-non-mint","title":"Laurie Brown: Recent Terrains - Terraforming the American West (Rare edition) (Non-mint)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoftcover | \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e30.48 x 1.85 x 17.78 cm | 112 pp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Hopkins University Press | 2000 | \u003c\/span\u003e9780801864001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRare Edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this volume of 60 black-and-white panoramas, photographer Laurie Brown documents the changing landscape along the western edge of Southern California. These stark images reveal a world scraped and reshaped by construction equipment - boulders pushed aside, stretches of earth flattened and then measured with surveyor sticks. High-tech housing developments rise in these places, lines of identical homes that simultaneously offer a pleasing vision of order and a numbing prospect of sterile conformity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTaken during the last decade of the 20th century, these photographs serve as an archive of change at a specific place on the coastal edge of California at the turn of the millennium. But these images have larger relevance for all of us, exploring our ideas about what constitutes a home and what defines our sense of community. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book is divided into three sections, each prefaced by a poem by Los Angeles poet Martha Ronk; it concludes with an essay by writer and conservationist, Charles E. Little.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePLEASE NOTE: This book is a NON-MINT item. NON-MINT books are new but are either ex-display copies or warehouse marked - minor cosmetic imperfections such as scuffs, marks, or minor dents to the covers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47867884798210,"sku":"BK-JHU-RTTAW-002-OP","price":9.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_3707_f0d5178f-49b9-4e98-8782-078a7f00b5dc.jpg?v=1749135688","url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/products\/laurie-brown-recent-terrains-terraforming-the-american-west-non-mint","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}