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Author : Robert J. Reber
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781930487437
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (874 download)
Download or read book Projectile Points and the Illinois Landscape written by Robert J. Reber and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996311908
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (119 download)
Download or read book My Journey Into the Wilds of Chicago written by Mike MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our fast-paced world of technology, where populations are becoming more urbanized and life is increasingly experienced on electronic screens, people are losing their connection to nature. Yet nature is all around us, especially if you live in the Chicago area. Unfortunately, few Chicagoans know it's there.In My Journey into the Wilds of Chicago, photographer and humorist Mike MacDonald takes you on a trip to Chicago's wild side--a verdant, untamed Chicago that has been there all along, just waiting to be explored. Combining breathtaking images and imaginative prose, MacDonald leads you on an adventure into wondrous, enchanted lands located just up the road from home, work, and school. From kaleidoscopic tallgrass prairies to the open canopies of rare oak savannas, from the free-flying expanse of the butterfly to the mysterious world of the coyote, startling photographs of a vast and scenic Chicago evoke astonishment and delight with every turn of the page.MacDonald's contagious enthusiasm and decades of comedy experience are channeled into inventive essays, captions, and poetry that engage the imagination and add richness to your journey. This inspirational volume invites readers to cross the threshold, to get off their couches and abandon their screens, to come out into nature and play.
Author : James A Fizzell
Publisher : Cool Springs Press
ISBN 13 : 1888608994
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Illinois Gardener's Guide written by James A Fizzell and published by Cool Springs Press. This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardening is now the favorite leisure pastime in America. Homeowners are realizing the health benefits derived from gardening and the increase in their home's property value. The Illinois Gardener's Guide: Revised Edition is written by the popular gardening expert James Fizzell. It contains easy-to-use advice on the top landscape plant choices (more than 190 entries) for Illinois. It also recommends specific varieties, and provides advice on how to plant, how to grow and how to care for Illinois' best plants. It is a must read for every Illinois gardener.
Author : Alaina Kanfer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252032748
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Barns of Illinois written by Alaina Kanfer and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An endearing tribute to the well-grounded majesty of Illinois barns
Author : Gary Irving
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252016493
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Beneath an Open Sky written by Gary Irving and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beneath an Open Sky marks Irving's first complete collection of panoramic images, most of which are displayed to maximum advantage across two-page spreads. The handsome oversized horizontal format allows the reader to experience the true scope of the open landscape."--Publisher.
Author : James R. Wright
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738560021
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Dixie Highway in Illinois written by James R. Wright and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dixie Highway, once a main thoroughfare from Chicago to Miami, was part of an improved network of roads traversing the landscape of 10 states. A product of the Good Roads Movement of the early 20th century, construction on the highway in Illinois took place from 1916 to 1921. When completed in 1921, the Dixie Highway was the longest continuous paved road in the state. It ran through parts of Cook, Will, Kankakee, Iroquois, and Vermilion Counties, with service stations, roadside diners, and campgrounds sprouting up along the way. With over 200 vintage photographs, The Dixie Highway in Illinois takes readers on a tour from the Art Institute of Chicago, in the heart of the city on Michigan Avenue, to the Illinois state line east of Danville, exploring this historic highway and the communities it passes through.
Author : Bruce L. Rhoads
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108173780
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (81 download)
Download or read book River Dynamics written by Bruce L. Rhoads and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-29 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are fundamental in landscape development, and essential for water supply, irrigation, and transportation. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geomorphological processes that shape rivers and that produce change in the form of rivers. It explores how the dynamics of rivers are being affected by anthropogenic change, including climate change, dam construction, and modification of rivers for flood control and land drainage. It discusses how concern about environmental degradation of rivers has led to the emergence of management strategies to restore and naturalize these systems, and how river management techniques work best when coordinated with the natural dynamics of rivers. This textbook provides an excellent resource for students, researchers, and professionals in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, river science, and environmental policy.
Author : Herbert K. Russell
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809315895
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (158 download)
Download or read book A Southern Illinois Album written by Herbert K. Russell and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life on the road was anything but glamorous for Farm Security Administration photographers traveling through southern Illinois in the mid-1930s. Often their most promising subjects lived at the end of the worst roads, many of which lacked bridges, drainage ditches, or gravel. Outfitted with three government-issue cameras, flashbulbs, tripods, and film-processing chemicals, their job was to help "explain America to Americans" by seeking out and photographing the one-third of the nation FDR described as "ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished." Featured in this book are more than one hundred photographs from the collection of a quarter of a million taken by FSA photographers between 1935 and 1943. These pictures capture life during the Great Depression as viewed in the coal-mining towns of Herrin, West Frankfort, and Zeigler; the river communities of Shawneetown, Cairo, and Grayville; the farming regions near McLeansboro, Newton, and Harrisburg--more than two dozen southern Illinois county seats, hamlets, and landings. Together they comprise a photographic portrait of the determination, hard work, and capacity to find ways to celebrate life exemplified by the people of southern Illinois during one of the most difficult periods of American history. FSA photographers helped to invent and popularize the "documentary style," a type of photography in which pictures and their arrangement carry much of the information in a story. Intended to document the success of a government project, these pictures survived to preserve for later generations the story of the people of southern Illinois and how they endured the difficult times of the Great Depression.
Author : M. Elen Deming
Publisher : Applied Research + Design Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781939621924
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Landscape Observatory written by M. Elen Deming and published by Applied Research + Design Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modernist history of landscape architecture is deeply marbled with veins of regional and phenomenological sensibility. Master designer Terence G. Harkness reflects this sensibility in every region he inhabits - whether the foothills of northern California, the high plains of North Dakota, or the lost prairies of east central Illinois. The long arc of his work and teaching is essentially and critically eco-revelatory. Yet because Harkness is not principally a scholar, his work has not been widely studied. That omission is redressed by this presentation of Harkness' most significant and recognizable works, including drawings, plans, models, and photographs. Contributors to the book chronicle Terry's development and values and position him in the currents of contemporary landscape discourse.
Author : Larry Kanfer
Publisher : Visions of Illinois
ISBN 13 : 9780252014826
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Prairiescapes written by Larry Kanfer and published by Visions of Illinois. This book was released on 1987 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former student of architecture at the University of Illinois, Kanfer has developed a kinship with the rural regions of the Prairie State. He draws upon a rich background in art, design, and travel to focus on the unique qualities of the midwesten landscape, exhibiting an unusual sensitivity to composition, color, texture, and light. Kanfer isolates singular images--a solitary barn, a rural mailbox atop a roadside post, a red stop sign caught in the nighttime glare of a car's headlight, cornflower blossoms springing from a ditch--as well as broader prairie scenes.
Author : Philip Juras
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578864587
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (645 download)
Download or read book Picturing the Prairie written by Philip Juras and published by . This book was released on 2021-05 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifty-four paintings in this volume celebrate the natural beauty of the rare tallgrass prairie environments of Illinois and the remarkable legacy of conservation that sustains them. Artist and author Philip Juras's evocative canvases are based on extensive research, travel, and time in the field with prairie conservation experts. As a result, his luminous paintings, and his descriptions of them, are rich in ecological and historical detail. An accompanying essay by acclaimed conservationist Stephen Packard tells the story of how the tallgrass prairie ecosystem was, and is, being saved from extinction in Illinois by a series of remarkable individuals and initiatives-efforts that have inspired conservation practices well beyond the state's borders.Picturing the Prairie invites us to get to know these restored landscapes, both within these pages and in the corresponding 2021 exhibition at the Chicago Botanic Garden. In them we can experience the magnificence of this archetypal American grassland, both in its present nature, and as it was in the past.
Author : Larry Kanfer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252019685
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (196 download)
Download or read book On Second Glance written by Larry Kanfer and published by . This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "But here the changes are chronological. In my photographs I show time - seasonal change, the cycles of life. That's where the beauty lies." As in his highly acclaimed earlier collection, Prairiescapes, Kanfer presents his own unmistakable vision of the vast heartland. Karla Vallance on National Public Radio described Prairiescapes as "capturing the uncelebrated fields and streams around the town where I grew up and turning the water of those ordinary places in mundane.
Author : Illinois. Dept. of Conservation. Information/Education Division
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Illinois Outdoor Highlights written by Illinois. Dept. of Conservation. Information/Education Division and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252036824
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Picturing Illinois written by John A. Jakle and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the twentieth century the debut of the American picture postcard incited widespread enthusiasm for collecting and sending postcard art that lasted decades. In Picturing Illinois, John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle examine a diverse set of 200 vintage Illinois picture postcards revealing what locals considered captivating, compelling, and commemorable. They also interpret how individual messages impart the sender's personal perception of local geography and scenery. Jakle and Sculle follow the dialogue between urban Chicago and rural downstate, elucidating the postcard's significance in popular culture and the unique ways in which Illinoisans pictured their world.
Author : LaurenS. Weingarden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351559729
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Louis H. Sullivan and a 19th-Century Poetics of Naturalized Architecture written by LaurenS. Weingarden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the twentieth century, modernist viewers dismissed the architectural ornament of Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) and the majority of his theoretical writings as emotional outbursts of an outmoded romanticism. In this study, Lauren Weingarden reveals Sullivan's eloquent articulation of nineteenth-century romantic practices - literary, linguistic, aesthetic, spiritual, and nationalistic - and thus rescues Sullivan and his legacy from the narrow role imposed on him as a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. Using three interpretive models, discourse theory, poststructural semiotic analysis, and a pragmatic concept of sign-functions, she restores the integrity of Sullivan's artistic choices and his historical position as a culminating figure within nineteenth-century romanticism. By giving equal weight to Louis Sullivan's writings and designs, Weingarden shows how he translated both Ruskin's tenets of Gothic naturalism and Whitman's poetry of the American landscape into elemental structural forms and organic ornamentation. Viewed as a site where various romantic discourses converged, Sullivan's oeuvre demands a cross-disciplinary exploration of each discursive practice, and its "rules of accumulation, exclusion, reactivation." The overarching theme of this study is the interrogation and restitution of those Foucauldian rules that enabled Sullivan to articulate architecture as a pictorial mode of landscape art, which he considered co-equal with the spiritual and didactic functions of landscape poetry.
Author : Willard Clay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942394580
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Illinois, Images of the Landscape written by Willard Clay and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith F. Davis
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 1555952305
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book American Horizons written by Keith F. Davis and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2004 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing monograph explores how Sinsabaugh's wide format photographs expose the bond between humankind and the earth as suggested by his images of wide horizons, interspersed by skyscrapers, bridges, silos and highways. 96 colour & 200 b/w illustrations
