{"product_id":"spiral-jetta-a-road-trip-through-the-land-art-of-the-american-west-paperback","title":"Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip Through the Land Art of the American West - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErin Hogan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eErin Hogan hit the road in her Volkswagen Jetta and headed west from Chicago in search of the monuments of American land art: a salty coil of rocks, four hundred stainless steel poles, a gash in a mesa, four concrete tubes, and military sheds filled with cubes. Her journey took her through the states of Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. It also took her through the states of anxiety, drunkenness, disorientation, and heat exhaustion. \u003ci\u003eSpiral Jetta \u003c\/i\u003eis a chronicle of this journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lapsed art historian and devoted urbanite, Hogan initially sought firsthand experience of the monumental earthworks of the 1970s and the 1980s--Robert Smithson's \u003ci\u003eSpiral Jetty, \u003c\/i\u003eNancy Holt's \u003ci\u003eSun Tunnels, \u003c\/i\u003eWalter De Maria's \u003ci\u003eLightning Field, \u003c\/i\u003eJames Turrell's \u003ci\u003eRoden Crater\u003c\/i\u003e, Michael Heizer's \u003ci\u003eDouble Negative\u003c\/i\u003e, and the contemporary art mecca of Marfa, Texas. Armed with spotty directions, no compass, and less-than-desert-appropriate clothing, she found most of what she was looking for and then some. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I was never quite sure what Hogan was looking for when she set out . . . or indeed whether she found it. But I loved the ride. In \u003ci\u003eSpiral Jetta\u003c\/i\u003e, an unashamedly honest, slyly uproarious, ever-probing book, art doesn't magically have the power to change lives, but it can, perhaps no less powerfully, change ways of seeing.\"--Tom Vanderbilt, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The reader emerges enlightened and even delighted. . . . Casually scrutinizing the artistic works . . . while gamely playing up her fish-out-of-water status, Hogan delivers an ingeniously engaging travelogue-cum-art history.\"--\u003ci\u003eAtlantic \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Smart and unexpectedly hilarious.\"--Kevin Nance, \u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the funniest and most entertaining road trips to be published in quite some time.\"--June Sawyers, \u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hogan ruminates on how the work affects our sense of time, space, size, and scale. She is at her best when she reexamines the precepts of modernism in the changing light of New Mexico, and shows how the human body is meant to be a participant in these grand constructions.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErin Hogan \u003c\/b\u003eis director of public affairs at the Art Institute of Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45260010881126,"sku":"9780226348469","price":39.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/WlRtSXJZRjFhZk54bk45bGZVSHFIZz09.webp?v=1773863428","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/spiral-jetta-a-road-trip-through-the-land-art-of-the-american-west-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}