The Flamingo in the Garden: American Yard Art and the Vernacular Landscape

by Colleen J. Sheehy

Overview

First published in 1996 Documents a wide range of American yard art and distills from it insights into attitudes and values about places, homes, neighborhoods, communities, mediating relationships between culture and nature, negotiate consumer culture, and reusing and individualizing mass- produced things.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000525526
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/12/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Colleen J. Sheehy

Table of Contents

I. Yard Art as Public Art, Contemporary Scenes and Historical Antecedents II. Travel, Play, and Celebration in American Landscapes, III. The Flamingo in the Garden, An Iconography of American Yard Art IV. Creating the Domestic Landscape, The Home Handyman and Craftswoman Respond to Consumer Culture V. Neighborhood and Nation Shared and Distinctive Practices in American Yard Art

Editorial Reviews

Documents a wide range of American yard art and distills from it insights into attitudes and values about places, homes, neighborhoods, communities, mediating relationships between culture and nature, negotiate consumer culture, and reusing and individualizing mass- produced things. Includes a chapter on the home handyman and craftswoman. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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