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Buyways

Name: Buyways
Author: Catherine Gudis
ISBN: 9780203494639

by Catherine Gudis

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Overview

In Buyways, Catherine Gudis focuses on the development of the outdoor advertising industry in 20th century America, and its role in the commodification of the landscape.

Synopsis

Shows how the placeless markets that billboards created presage the pop-ups in the ultimate placeless space, the Internet. Richly illustrated with more than 60 illustrations--including an 8-page color insert--of billboards and ads from across the century, this book traces the evolution of billboards from urban centers of the 1920s to the freeways that stretch across America today

About the Author, Catherine Gudis

Catherine Gudis is an assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma and received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She has worked for several museums, including The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and is the editor of numerous art books, among them Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s and A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation.