Joshua Shannon discusses “The Matter of the Mid-Century Desert”.  Shannon is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History & Theory at the University of Maryland and The Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Desert Avant-Garde”.

Joshua Shannon discusses “The Matter of the Mid-Century Desert”. Shannon is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History & Theory at the University of Maryland and The Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Desert Avant-Garde”.

Joshua Shannon discusses “The Matter of the Mid-Century Desert”.  Shannon is Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History &amp; Theory at the University of Maryland and The Potomac Center for the Study of Modernity. This lecture is included in the session titled, ”Desert Avant-Garde”.

The Matter of the Mid-Century Desert

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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