Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon by Youngs, Yolonda
Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon by Youngs, Yolonda

Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is an internationally known feature of the North American landscape,...
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Author: Yolonda Youngs
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Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon by Youngs, Yolonda

Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon

CHF 69.89
Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon by Youngs, Yolonda

Framing Nature: The Creation of an American Icon at the Grand Canyon

CHF 69.89
Author: Yolonda Youngs
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The Grand Canyon of the Colorado River is an internationally known feature of the North American landscape, attracting more than five million visitors each year. A deep cultural, visual, and social history has shaped the Grand Canyon's environment into one of America's most significant representations of nature. Yet the canyon is more than a vacation destination, a movie backdrop, or a scenic viewpoint; it is a real place as well as an abstraction easily summoned in the minds of Americans. The Grand Canyon, or the idea of it, is woven into the fabric of American cultural identity and serves as a cultural reference point--an icon.

In Framing Nature Yolonda Youngs traces the idea of the Grand Canyon as an icon and the ways people came to know it through popular imagery and visual media. She analyzes and interprets more than fourteen hundred visual artifacts, including postcards, maps, magazine illustrations, and photographs of the Grand Canyon, supplemented with the words and ideas of writers, artists, explorers, and other media makers from 1869 to 2022. Youngs considers the manipulation and commodification of visual representations and shifting ideas, values, and meanings of nature, exploring the interplay between humans and their environments and how visual representations shape popular ideas and meanings about national parks and the American West. Framing Nature provides a novel interpretation of how places, especially national parks, are transformed into national and environmental symbols.


Author: Yolonda Youngs
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 06/01/2024
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781496202185

About the Author
Yolonda Youngs is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the coeditor of The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States.

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