{"product_id":"impossible-heights-skyscrapers-flight-and-the-master-builder-9780816673186","title":"Impossible Heights  Skyscrapers Flight and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eImpossible Heights\u003c\/i\u003e is an original account of the American fascination with the skyscraper and the airplane and the enthusiasm for the new perspective on high from which people surveyed the city and landscape. Adnan Morshed examines the intersections between intellectual biography, visuality, and cultural history and brings together the ‘art of architecture’ with mass culture and spectatorship. In doing so, he illuminates ‘the aesthetics of ascension’ as a widely shared cultural phenomenon that characterized the interwar period.” —Gail Fenske, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Skyscraper and the City: The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eImpossible Heights. . . \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a site of rich cultural exploration regarding the architectural history of flight.\"—\u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eImpossible Heights\u003c\/i\u003e is driven by extensive archival research presented in clear, accessible prose capable of engaging architectural historians as well as readers intrigued by the twentieth century’s unquenchable reach for the skies. In a fascinating read that is enhanced with over a hundred images, Morshed’s \u003ci\u003eImpossible Heights\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life this period of spectacular vision for the American metropolis.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Aesthetics of Ascension\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Hugh Ferriss and the “Harmonious Development of Man”\u003cbr\u003e2. Ascension as Autobiography: Buckminster Fuller and His “Land to Sky, Outward Progression”\u003cbr\u003e3. The Master Builder as Superman: Norman Bel Geddes’s Futurama\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The God’s-Eye Vision\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405966025047,"sku":"9780816673186","price":79.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816673186.jpg?v=1730494072","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/impossible-heights-skyscrapers-flight-and-the-master-builder-9780816673186","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}