Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder
Author:   Adnan Morshed
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816673186


Pages:   296
Publication Date:   15 January 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Impossible Heights: Skyscrapers, Flight, and the Master Builder


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Demonstrating how aerial movement and heightintersect with popular ""superman"" discourses of the time, Adnan Morshed revealsthe relationship between architecture, art, science, and interwar pop culture.Featuring a marvelous array of never before published illustrations, thisrichly textured study of utopian imaginings illustrates America's propulsioninto a new cultural consciousness.  

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Author:   Adnan Morshed
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.812kg
ISBN:  

9780816673186


ISBN 10:   0816673187
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   15 January 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Aesthetics of Ascension 1. Hugh Ferriss and the “Harmonious Development of Man” 2. Ascension as Autobiography: Buckminster Fuller and His “Land to Sky, Outward Progression” 3. The Master Builder as Superman: Norman Bel Geddes’s Futurama Epilogue: The God’s-Eye Vision Notes Index

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A valuable contribution to the tradition of scholarship on aerial perspective and the history of visuality by focusing upon the interwar period and the American fascination with aviation and skyscrapers. CHOICE Impossible Heights. . . offers a site of rich cultural exploration regarding the architectural history of flight. Science Fiction Studies


A valuable contribution to the tradition of scholarship on aerial perspective and the history of visuality by focusing upon the interwar period and the American fascination with aviation and skyscrapers. -CHOICE Impossible Heights. . . offers a site of rich cultural exploration regarding the architectural history of flight. -Science Fiction Studies


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Adnan Morshed is associate professor of architecture and architectural history at the Catholic University of America.

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