1st Edition
The Flamingo in the Garden American Yard Art and the Vernacular Landscape
By Colleen J. Sheehy
Copyright 1998
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1996 Documents a wide range of American yard art and distills from it insights into attitudes and values about places, homes, neighborhoods, communities, mediating relationships between culture and nature, negotiate consumer culture, and reusing and individualizing mass- produced things.
I. Yard Art as Public Art, Contemporary Scenes and Historical Antecedents II. Travel, Play, and Celebration in American Landscapes, III. The Flamingo in the Garden, An Iconography of American Yard Art IV. Creating the Domestic Landscape, The Home Handyman and Craftswoman Respond to Consumer Culture V. Neighborhood and Nation Shared and Distinctive Practices in American Yard Art
Biography
Colleen J. Sheehy
