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Jade Sasser
On Infertile Ground Population Control and Women's Rights in the Era of Climate Change
A critique of population control narratives reproduced by international development actors in the 21st century Since the turn of the millennium, Ameri...
Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future
The first book-length exploration of climate-driven reproductive anxiety that places race and social justice at the center. Eco-anxiety. Climate guilt...
Climate anxiety and the kid question : deciding whether to have children in an uncertain future
"Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question looks at how environmental emotions influence whether, when, and why people today decide to become parents--or n...
Malthus's specter and the anthropocene
Hegemonic narratives and practices around environmental change, even when coming from concerned and seemingly progressive fronts, often contribute to...
Catherine Gudis
THE STRIP
A constellation of factors, including the activities of the outdoor advertising
industry, laid the groundwork for the commercial strip of the postwar...
Roni Horn
Catalogue to an exhibition of five works dating from 1980 to the present by American sculptress Roni Horn (b. 1955), with an introduction by Goldstein...
From Delinquents to Street Terrorists: L.A.'s War on Black and Chicanx Youth, 1945-1965
The history of policing and criminalization of young Black and Chicanx Angelinos from 1945 to 1965 reveals a central node in the development of L.A.’s...
Buyways: billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape [by] Catherine Gudis [book review]
Publ. in 2004.
LOSERS AND WINNERS
Though through the years the battle lines in the billboard war tended to be
drawn between aesthetics and business, the billboard advocates were not wi...
THE KIDS' READING ROOM; 'Touring Wilshire Boulevard'; Part 1: HOME EDITION
"But you see only a small part of it," said [Susan]. "Wilshire starts in downtown Los Angeles, continues through Beverly Hills and ends at the ocean i...
The Importance of Being True Blue: The Du Pont Company and the Color Revolution
In August 1926, Irénée du Pont, vice chairman at E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, wrote to Henry H. Bassett, general manager of the Buick division...
THE AESTHETICS OF SPEED AND THE POWERS OF “PICTURIZATION”
Reduced amounts of text and ornate images in outdoor advertisements of the
1920s suggest that advertisers struggled to make ads quickly legible to mot...
The Independiente "Mexican School": Pedagogies of Race, Place, and Citizenship in Riverside, Ca., 1918-1933
The following study is an examination of how racialized forms of citizenship were produced and reinforced pedagogically as part of placemaking efforts...
America's roadside reading; Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape; Catherine Gudis; Routledge: 334 pp., $22 Signs in America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place; John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle; University...
For most of the 20th century, America the Beautiful waged war with America the Prosperous over the issue of billboard advertising. This struggle is re...
BEFORE THE CAR
As industrial America grew, so did advertising outdoors. Handbills and broadsides for farm machinery, auctions, runaway slaves, stagecoach schedules,...
Ray Johnson: correspondences
Catalogue to an exhibition of collages, mail art, and performance art pieces by the American artist Ray Johnson (1927-95). In their introductory texts...
Playing in the Park: Winter Sports and Sports Spectacles in Yosemite, 1900–1950
Since its founding, the National Park Service has struggled with a dual mandate to both protect sites within its charge and provide for the enjoyment...
A Forest of signs : art in the crisis of representation
A Forest of Signs documents a major exhibition of critical art in the last decade, one that marks a change in the art world, perhaps even in the broad...
The Architecture of Mobility: Outdoor Advertising and the Birth of the Strip
During the automobility boom of the 1920s, the billboard industry came to re-evaluate its assumptions about the distribution of audiences and the best...
THE PASTORAL VIEW
Could one justify protecting areas in Illinois, Nebraska, and Oklahoma as easily as California’s redwood forests or Hawaii’s tropical foliage and beac...
“We Don’t Mention the United States:” The Cultural Politics of Historical Interpretation Within the Settler State of Hawai’i at Puʻukoholā Heiau and ‘Iolani Palace
Through analyses of two foundational sites of the Hawaiian Kingdom—Puʻukoholā Heiau and ‘Iolani Palace—this dissertation offers an alternative interpr...
The Frontal Sinus : Surgical Approaches and Controversies
"This book will be a valuable resource for novice surgeons approaching one of the most challenging anatomical subsites, since it provides a stepwise a...
Opinion: Kevin de León's plan to rename Pershing Square is not the way to honor Black Angelenos
Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism
While all history has the potential to be political, public history is uniquely so: public historians engage in historical inquiry outside the bubble...
Remembering Bell Mountain: African American Landownership and Leisure in California’s High Desert During the Jim Crow Era
This dissertation is a biography of place that tells the story of Bell Mountain, an early twentieth-century African American homesteading community lo...
Endoscopic Repair of Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks in a Resource‐Limited Setting in Ghana
Objective This study assesses the outcomes of patients who underwent repair of skull base defects and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leaks via endoscopic e...
"Something Terrible Happened Here": Memory and Battlefield Preservation in the Construction of Race, Place, and Nation
This dissertation considers the changing place of race at nationally preserved battlefields from the Civil War and Indian Wars. As sites of contestati...
Walking the Talk: Art, History, and the Politics of Public Participatory Memory in L.A.’s Skid Row
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The quote above aptly summarizes the great variety of “folk” who have helped
me with this project. I am grateful for the intellectual support provided...
Review of Runte, Allies of the Earth: Railroads and the Soul of Preservation
By the 1960s passenger trains were in serious decline, displaced by cars, airplanes, and railroad executives more interested in the cash earned from c...
Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States
In the United States today many people are as likely to identify themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In this country with...
The Metropolitan Life Tower: Architecture and Ideology in the Life Insurance Enterprise
Fiancial institutions, among them life insurance companies, are prominent builders and owners of skyscrapers. These institutions are known for their c...
Driving consumption
Contribution to a "History and Technology" forum on Cotten Seiler's "Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America" (2008). Quest...
The Billboard War: Gender, Commerce, and Public Space
As the urban environment decentralized in the 1920s and 1930s with the adoption of the car as a routine part of American life, the highway became more...
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
Figures
1. Poster 14, no. 12 (1923): 34. Outdoor Advertising Association of America Archives, John W.
Introduction
Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the United States experienced the birth of a nationally integrated business culture. Through both horizontal...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape by Catherine Gudis is reviewed.
Broadcasting Seeds on the American Landscape
Prior to the nineteenth century, whatever planting was done by Americans (first colonists and then citizens) originated with seeds that were saved fro...
United States
An introduction to the United States that provides information on the country's geography, people, culture, history, government, economy, and climate.
Shaping Commemorative Imaginaries: The Case for Old Town Sacramento
This thesis explores the construction of the Old Sacramento Historic District during the post-war period. As a case study, this thesis explores how th...
The Popular Front and the Corporate Appropriation of Modernism
During the 1930s and 1940s, artists and designers in the United States with leftist political sympathies embarked upon a range of ambitious cultural i...
Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. (Cultural Spaces.) New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. viii, 333. $22.00
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and the American Landscape/America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place
Zelinsky reviews Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles and American Landscape by Catherine Gudis and America's Auto Age: Signatures of Landscape and Place...
Policing Mental Health
"Last Day of Freedom" and "Code," two films that address different aspects of the intersection of mental health and law enforcement, will screen on Ju...
Cultures of Commerce: Representation and American Business Culture, 1877-1960
44-1021 HM791 2005-56289 CIP Cultures of commerce: representation and American business culture, 1877-1960, ed. by Elspeth H. Brown, Catherine Gudis,...
Ayn Rand and the Politics of Property
It wasn’t too long ago that Ayn Rand, despite her enormous and ongoing popularity, was all but invisible in the criticism and history of twentieth-cen...
The road to consumption: Outdoor advertising and the American cultural landscape, 1917-1965
In the first decades of the twentieth century, the American landscape changed dramatically with the availability of automobiles, the construction of h...
ZONING AND THE ROAD TO FEDERAL LEGISLATION
From the time she founded the National Roadside Council, Elizabeth Boyd
Lawton asked the fundamental question, “Why commercialize the entire
countrysi...
PRODUCING THE NORTH AMERICAN METROPOLITAN LANDSCAPE
Seligman reviews Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta edited by Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres; Buyways: Bil...
Book Reviews
Appalachian Folkways
. By John B. Rehder. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. Preface, notes, glossary, references, and index, x+353...
MODERN ART AND ADVERTISING
The question of effectiveness remained troublesome, even to an industry that
embraced the social sciences and sought to apply its techniques to busine...
"Playa Politics: Technology, Nature, and Conflict at Southern California's Salton Sea."
When Anglo Americans first encountered Southern California’s Colorado Desert in the mid-nineteenth century, they were appalled by what they saw there....
Filipino America on the Palate : A Story of Filipinos' Presentations of Culture Through Foodways in Urban and Suburban Los Angeles
This thesis examines the ways that Filipino restaurateurs have adjusted their presentations of culture through food in the United States from the mid-...
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. By Catherine Gudis. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii+333 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. Paper $22.00
WHEN SEPARATE SPHERES COLLIDE
Women of the middle and upper classes had been vocal opponents of billboards for some time before the proliferation of the automobile. Around the
turn...
Roni Horn
Catalogue to an exhibition of five works dating from 1980 to the present by American sculptress Roni Horn (b.1955), with an introduction by Goldstein...
Cultures of commerce : representation and American business culture, 1877-1960
This anthology contributes to the scholarship occurring at the intersection of business history and the study of cultural forms, ranging from material...
Public culture : diversity, democracy, and community in the United States
In the United States today many people are as likely to identify themselves by their ethnicity or region as by their nationality. In this country with...
Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-415-93454-0,$90.00 (cloth); 0-415-93455-9, $ 22.00 (paper)
VISUALIZING DISTRIBUTION
In 1925, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover announced with pride that
since the end of the Great War America’s ability to make quality goods had
rea...
Matthew McCaslin/03
Expositions de l’artiste : communiqué de presse, dépliants avec textes de Fereshteh Daftari, Catherine Gudis, Gretchen Faust, Charles Wylie, cartons d...
Anxious Electorate: City Politics in Mid-1920s America
The 1920s has had a reputation as being a fallow period in the history of American urban politics, having the image of being a decade when business el...
Oehlen Williams 95
"The Wexner Center invited artists Albert Oehlen and Christopher Williams to assume a curatorial guise in which they selected, edited, and designed an...
Catherine Gudis. Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape. New York: Routledge, 2004. viii + 333 pp. ISBN 0-415-93454-0,$90.00 (cloth); 0-415-93455-9, $ 22.00 (paper)
Buyways: Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape, by Catherine Gudis, is reviewed.
NOTES
Press, 1990), 152. The jumbled message of the multilayered posters was a popular subject for engravings
in the period. See, for instance, “The Bill-Po...
Not the way to honor Black Angelenos; Kevin de Leon wants to rename Pershing Square after Biddy Mason, who has a public memorial
Radical Roots: Public History and a Tradition of Social Justice Activism
While all history has the potential to be political, public history is uniquely so: public historians engage in historical inquiry outside the bubble...
The Constituency Isn’t Digital: Rethinking Engagement in Digital Cultural Heritage
This thesis seeks to explore shifting paradigms in digital collections work in the twenty-first century. It puts into conversation different models of...
Cultures of commerce : representation and American business culture, 1877-1960 / edited by Elspeth H. Brown, Catherine Gudis, and Marina Moskowitz
Carleton Watkins, Thomas Hill, and Frederick Law Olmsted : An Artist Focused Approach to Establishing an Understanding of the Burgeoning National Park System
Abstract not required for MA - Art History Thesis