Leo Marx Landscape Architecture Department Architecture Department RISD Archives
Publication Date
03-05-1998
Description
Professor of History Leo Marx (MIT) spoke about landscape and post-modernity with topics including The Great Gatsby, the myth of American origins, pastoralism, progressivism, and primitivism, wilderne..
Professor of History Leo Marx (MIT) spoke about landscape and post-modernity with topics including The Great Gatsby, the myth of American origins, pastoralism, progressivism, and primitivism, wilderness, and Bill McKibben's The End of Nature.
This digital preservation project was made possible in part by a Libraries of Rhode Island (LORI) grant from the RI Office of Library & Information Services using funds from the Institute of Museum an..
This digital preservation project was made possible in part by a Libraries of Rhode Island (LORI) grant from the RI Office of Library & Information Services using funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
00:09:53 The Great Gatsby 00:17:35 The myth of American origins 00:30:40 Post-modernity 00:39:54 Wilderness and Bill McKibben 00:58:48 Ben Thompson and Faneuil Hall 01:04:25 Q&A
