January 2010
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AMERICAN ROAD: Paul McLean
[In my analysis of Peter Drucker’s analysis of Japan through Japanese art, I pointed out that Drucker ignored the Samurai sword in his commentary on that country’s aesthetic topology. An American artist would similarly be guilty of ignoring the obvious, in an investigation of cultural determinants, if he did not discuss the influence of the Freeway on this country’s collective...
Jan 27th
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Jan 8th
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“Caution: Objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear! Nostalgia born...”
– Jean Baudrillard, America [Vanishing Point]
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December 2009
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November 2009
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Woody Gwyn (slideshow @Lewallen Galleries) →
One of America’s great US Road painters (representational), and one of my friends from Santa Fe via Goldleaf Framemakers, where Woody used to get his work framed (and I think, still does)…
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October 2009
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“When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t...”
– –William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways (1982)
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DESCANSOS : ROADSIDE MEMORIALS ON THE AMERICAN... →
PHOTOGRAPHY BY DAVE NANCE
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September 2009
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“On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads...”
–  William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Sep 28th
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Photography by Edgar G. Praus →
Working as a fine art documentary photographer, Edgar G. Praus has criss-crossed America’s backroads for over thirty years. Here is his story.
Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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American Highways: A Popular Account  →
PREFACE THE historian of this country for the century which is now drawing to its close is likely to note the fact that the people of the United States bore in a singularly patient manner with the evils arising from poor carriage roads until near the end of the tenth decade, and that they then were suddenly aroused to a sense of the sore tax the ill condition of these necessary features of...
Sep 28th
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Sep 28th
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Road Show Artist's Statement
Road Show (2000) Crossing America alone can be a spiritual experience. It’s a vehicle thing. Driving the highway stretching the width of the continent in a solid-built car is at the core of this nation’s experience. You cannot understand the USA, unless you have gotten behind the wheel of a vehicle, poured a massive cup of coffee, lit a cigarette, turned some Rock n Roll on your...
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