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KunstlerCast#11: Picturing Suburbia

KunstlerCast#11: Picturing Suburbia

FromKunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy


KunstlerCast#11: Picturing Suburbia

FromKunstlerCast - Suburban Sprawl: A Tragic Comedy

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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Apr 24, 2008
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

When James Howard Kunstler isn't railing against suburban sprawl, he's painting it. Vincent van Gogh painted the peasant sleeping by the haystack because he was living in a landscape populated by people. Our landscape is populated by cars. So, as a sur la motif painter of our time, Jim's subjects include cars on the road, gas stations and the industrial ruins of America's manufacturing past. Making this landscape legible on the canvas is a challenge, but it's also dangerous! An angry manager once told Jim that painting the Burger King is not allowed.

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KunstlerCast_11.mp3
Released:
Apr 24, 2008
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere, The Long Emergency, and World Made By Hand, takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.