Introduction: spaciousness, history of a visual effect 1. The small house era 2. The production o... more Introduction: spaciousness, history of a visual effect 1. The small house era 2. The production of spaciousness 3. Spacious interiors 4. Looking at landscapes 5. Glass horizons 6. 'The view it frames': a history of the picture window 7. Cultivated vistas 8. The ruler and the eye: the compensations of spaciousness 9. Conclusion: this excellent dumb discourse.
America around 1950 Once the most essential and time-consuming of activities, the procurement off... more America around 1950 Once the most essential and time-consuming of activities, the procurement offood had become by the mid-twentieth centuryfor many Americans a simple matter of opening the refrigerator. This essay considers the refrigerator as a modern symbol of triumph over the physical distances of hunting and the temporal dimensions of agriculture. When it was new, electric refrigeration was promoted for the engineering that made it cleaner and more reliable than the iceman. As refrigerator technology became commonplace, advertising strategies shifted. Borrowingfrom themes in architectural circles regardingfluid relations between inside and outside, refrigerators were pitched as labour-saving machines that revitalized relations with the outdoors by virtue of the leisure time they helped create. Even more vividly, the refrigerator by the early 1950s was itself promoted as a window on to a larger food landscape. Gathering together the fruits of this earth, the refrigerator was increasingly marketed toward mid-century as a spectacle of nature's bounty.
... Indeed, the final scene unfolds as a veritable tableau of Walter Benjamin's &quo... more ... Indeed, the final scene unfolds as a veritable tableau of Walter Benjamin's "angel of history"-facing the past and being blown ... John Hejduk, for example, suggested that Corbusier had already sketched in the grand panorama, and his own work merely elaborated aspects of the ...
In Dianne Harris and J. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., Sites Unseen: Essays on Landscape and Vision (Un... more In Dianne Harris and J. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., Sites Unseen: Essays on Landscape and Vision (University Park, Penn: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007).
Introduction: spaciousness, history of a visual effect 1. The small house era 2. The production o... more Introduction: spaciousness, history of a visual effect 1. The small house era 2. The production of spaciousness 3. Spacious interiors 4. Looking at landscapes 5. Glass horizons 6. 'The view it frames': a history of the picture window 7. Cultivated vistas 8. The ruler and the eye: the compensations of spaciousness 9. Conclusion: this excellent dumb discourse.
America around 1950 Once the most essential and time-consuming of activities, the procurement off... more America around 1950 Once the most essential and time-consuming of activities, the procurement offood had become by the mid-twentieth centuryfor many Americans a simple matter of opening the refrigerator. This essay considers the refrigerator as a modern symbol of triumph over the physical distances of hunting and the temporal dimensions of agriculture. When it was new, electric refrigeration was promoted for the engineering that made it cleaner and more reliable than the iceman. As refrigerator technology became commonplace, advertising strategies shifted. Borrowingfrom themes in architectural circles regardingfluid relations between inside and outside, refrigerators were pitched as labour-saving machines that revitalized relations with the outdoors by virtue of the leisure time they helped create. Even more vividly, the refrigerator by the early 1950s was itself promoted as a window on to a larger food landscape. Gathering together the fruits of this earth, the refrigerator was increasingly marketed toward mid-century as a spectacle of nature's bounty.
... Indeed, the final scene unfolds as a veritable tableau of Walter Benjamin's &quo... more ... Indeed, the final scene unfolds as a veritable tableau of Walter Benjamin's "angel of history"-facing the past and being blown ... John Hejduk, for example, suggested that Corbusier had already sketched in the grand panorama, and his own work merely elaborated aspects of the ...
In Dianne Harris and J. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., Sites Unseen: Essays on Landscape and Vision (Un... more In Dianne Harris and J. Fairchild Ruggles, eds., Sites Unseen: Essays on Landscape and Vision (University Park, Penn: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007).
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