America Deserta
Last updated: December 13, 2018
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Following Reyner Banham’s classic 1982 travelogue Scenes in America Deserta, this selection of essays, interviews, and historical documents locates the desert as a puzzling critical envelope for Southern California, and recasts it from a vast, lawless space to a transitional landscape of non-conformity.
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America Deserta Archive