In this astonishing collection of photographs and drawings, Lisa Mahar-Keplinger documents on of the most American of building types: the grain elevator, revealing them as symbols of the American collective unconscious. Winner of an AIA Book Award, Grain Elevators is a companion volume to Wood Burners.
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The Grain Elevator is a quintessential American monument. Mahar-Keplinger's crips yet haunting photographs are works of art, and her text reminds us that the American equivalent of the Gothic cathedral or the Egyptian pyramid is more than just a subject beloved by artists...[It is] a good introduction to the development of the American silo and is about silos as objects of beauty. William Morgan, University of Louisville
Anyone who's ever seen the immense grain elevators scattered like cathedrals across the American landscape will be enchanted with this modest, beautifully-designed and illustrated book. Travel Books Worldwide
Anyone who's ever seen the immense grain elevators scattered like cathedrals across the American landscape will be enchanted with this modest, beautifully-designed and illustrated book. Travel Books Worldwide
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This is one of the best books that I have read about the American Grain elevator, after doing a lot of research on the topic. The book is a wealth of information on a subject that is not widely published.
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To those who travel the great highways of the Midwest, silos appear like cathedrals, and in fact they are the cathedrals of our times. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban elevator, rural elevator, distributing floor, brick elevator, tile elevator, wood elevator, concrete elevator, circular bins, rectangular bins, land grid, grain elevator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Dakota, North Dakota, Great Northern, Elevations Column, Photographs Column New!
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To those who travel the great highways of the Midwest, silos appear like cathedrals, and in fact they are the cathedrals of our times. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban elevator, rural elevator, distributing floor, brick elevator, tile elevator, wood elevator, concrete elevator, circular bins, rectangular bins, land grid, grain elevator Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Dakota, North Dakota, Great Northern, Elevations Column, Photographs Column New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Plains Country Towns by John C. Hudson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory (Aperture Writers & Artists on Photography) by Wright Morris in Back Matter
- The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books) by Aldo Rossi on page 11
- Documentary Expression and Thirties America by William Stott in Back Matter
- The Making of the American Landscape by Michael P. Conzen in Back Matter
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