God's Own Junkyard
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+ | "[[Peter Blake (architect)|Blake]]'s book falls into the [[jeremiad]] tradition of [[Frederick Allen]]." --''[[Building the Nation]]'' by Steven Conn, Max Page | ||
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+ | "[''[[God's Own Junkyard]]''] is a deliberate attack upon all those who have already befouled a large portion of [[Architecture of the United States|this country]] for private gain and are engaged in befouling the rest." --''[[God's Own Junkyard]]'' (1964) by Peter Blake, preface | ||
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- | '''''God's Own Junkyard: The Planned Deterioration of America's Landscape''''' (1951) is a book by German architect [[Peter Blake (architect)]]. | + | '''''God's Own Junkyard: The Planned Deterioration of America's Landscape''''' (1964) is a book by German-American architect [[Peter Blake (architect)|Peter Blake]]. |
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+ | :"Contains many black and white photos of the [[desecration]] of the U.S. landscape in the late 50's/early 60's." | ||
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+ | ==Excerpts== | ||
+ | "It is a deliberate attack upon all those who have already befouled a large portion of this country for private gain and are engaged in befouling the rest." | ||
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+ | "At present, these should-be leaders are, instead, performing for Mr. Ripley's "[[Ripley's Believe It or Not! |Believe It or Not]]" circus: architects, painters, and sculptors are outdoing one another in acrobatics, in hot pursuit of novelty; taste makers are busy watching the box office and the circulation figures, instead of making taste; and the public (which includes the public uglifiers) simply follows the lead of our supposed "[[intellectual elite]]." | ||
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+ | "For the truth is that the mess that is man-made America is merely a caricature of the mess that is art in America — and a very mild caricature at that. The inscription on Sir [[Christopher Wren]]'s tomb in [[St. Paul's Cathedral]] contains the famous words:"If thou seek his monument, look about thee." God forbid that this should ever become our epitaph." | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
+ | *[[American urban planning]] | ||
+ | *[[Planned]] [[deterioration]] | ||
+ | **[[Planned obsolescence]] | ||
+ | *[[American architecture]] | ||
*[[Junkyard]] | *[[Junkyard]] | ||
*[[Big Duck]] | *[[Big Duck]] | ||
*[[Bibliography of suburbs]] | *[[Bibliography of suburbs]] | ||
+ | *[[Cultural pessimism]] | ||
+ | *[[God's Own Country]] | ||
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"Blake's book falls into the jeremiad tradition of Frederick Allen." --Building the Nation by Steven Conn, Max Page "[God's Own Junkyard] is a deliberate attack upon all those who have already befouled a large portion of this country for private gain and are engaged in befouling the rest." --God's Own Junkyard (1964) by Peter Blake, preface |
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God's Own Junkyard: The Planned Deterioration of America's Landscape (1964) is a book by German-American architect Peter Blake.
Blurb:
- "Contains many black and white photos of the desecration of the U.S. landscape in the late 50's/early 60's."
Excerpts
"It is a deliberate attack upon all those who have already befouled a large portion of this country for private gain and are engaged in befouling the rest."
"At present, these should-be leaders are, instead, performing for Mr. Ripley's "Believe It or Not" circus: architects, painters, and sculptors are outdoing one another in acrobatics, in hot pursuit of novelty; taste makers are busy watching the box office and the circulation figures, instead of making taste; and the public (which includes the public uglifiers) simply follows the lead of our supposed "intellectual elite."
"For the truth is that the mess that is man-made America is merely a caricature of the mess that is art in America — and a very mild caricature at that. The inscription on Sir Christopher Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral contains the famous words:"If thou seek his monument, look about thee." God forbid that this should ever become our epitaph."
See also
- American urban planning
- Planned deterioration
- American architecture
- Junkyard
- Big Duck
- Bibliography of suburbs
- Cultural pessimism
- God's Own Country