Jame Nisbet delivers the losing remarks to the “The Fabricated American Desert: Modern & Anti-Modern”, held at The Huntington on April 15–16, 2016. Nisbet is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Jame Nisbet delivers the losing remarks to the “The Fabricated American Desert: Modern &amp; Anti-Modern”, held at The Huntington on April 15–16, 2016. Nisbet is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Closing Remarks

The southwestern desert has long stood for American individualism, modernist and anti-modernist sentiments, and social and political experiments. As such it has attracted artistic and architectural movements that give form to these ideas. This conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplines to explore the relationship between desert extremes and the built environment.

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Closing Remarks

Closing Remarks