Jason Weems
Biographic Data
| ID | 5643385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Weems |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Weems |
| SIGNATURE | WEEMS J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Humans
BOOKHumansLaura Bieger, Joshua Shannon, Jason Weems Stable URL: https://www.aaeportal.com/?id=-22193Copy Humans are organisms, but "the human being" is a term referring to a complicated, self-contradictory, and historically evolving set of concepts and practices. Humans explores competing versions, constructs, and ideas of the human being that have figured prominently in the arts of the United States. These essays consider a range of artworks fro…
Fire Oppression
Fire Oppression: Burning and Weaving in Indigenous CaliforniaJessica L. HortonHumansStories about the origins of fire give shape to the malleable category "humans" and predict the long-term...AuthorJessica L. HortonPublisherTerra Foundation for American ArtCopyright© 2021, Terra Foundation for American ArtRelated print edition pages: pp.66-87 Stable URL: https://www.aaeportal.com/?id=-22197Copy Chapter subject tags:Indigenous peoplesPrescribed bu…
Stratifying the West
This essay explores the development of subterranean mapping and its place in the visual and expansionist epistemologies that shaped landscape vision in the American West during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The implications of new forms of stratigraphic vision were broad and multifaceted. In science, the study of mineral layers offered new theoretical and practical possibilities, from the conceptualization of eons-long geological tra…
Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Out
Interpreting a 1930s aerial survey photograph
Aerial views and farm security administration photography
Between September 1939 and April 1940 Arthur Rothstein and John Vachon, photographers for the US Government's Farm Security Administration (FSA), made three trips to Grundy County, Iowa to make photographs of Midwestern agrarian life. During these excursions the two men wandered along the streets of small towns and the furrows of farmers' fields taking snapshots that documented the events, places and patterns of rural life (figures 1, 2). In addi…
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Aerial views and farm security administration photography
Between September 1939 and April 1940 Arthur Rothstein and John Vachon, photographers for the US Government's Farm Security Administration (FSA), made three trips to Grundy County, Iowa to make photographs of Midwestern agrarian life. During these excursions the two men wandered along the streets of small towns and the furrows of farmers' fields taking snapshots that documented the events, places and patterns of rural life (figures 1, 2). In addi…
Looking Up, Looking Down, Looking Out
Interpreting a 1930s aerial survey photograph
Stratifying the West
This essay explores the development of subterranean mapping and its place in the visual and expansionist epistemologies that shaped landscape vision in the American West during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The implications of new forms of stratigraphic vision were broad and multifaceted. In science, the study of mineral layers offered new theoretical and practical possibilities, from the conceptualization of eons-long geological tra…
Humans
BOOKHumansLaura Bieger, Joshua Shannon, Jason Weems Stable URL: https://www.aaeportal.com/?id=-22193Copy Humans are organisms, but "the human being" is a term referring to a complicated, self-contradictory, and historically evolving set of concepts and practices. Humans explores competing versions, constructs, and ideas of the human being that have figured prominently in the arts of the United States. These essays consider a range of artworks fro…
Fire Oppression
Fire Oppression: Burning and Weaving in Indigenous CaliforniaJessica L. HortonHumansStories about the origins of fire give shape to the malleable category "humans" and predict the long-term...AuthorJessica L. HortonPublisherTerra Foundation for American ArtCopyright© 2021, Terra Foundation for American ArtRelated print edition pages: pp.66-87 Stable URL: https://www.aaeportal.com/?id=-22197Copy Chapter subject tags:Indigenous peoplesPrescribed bu…
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