Picturing LAS Vegas by Linda Chase
Through colorful photogra phs and firsthand narrative detail, Picturing Las Vegas tells the story of a city whose history mirrors that of America itself: a tale of the frontier, of corruption and greed, of beauty and loss and ineffable hope.From its hardscrabble origins, to the Golden Age of the Rat Pack, to today's mind-blowing theme-park casinos, Las Vegas is the city that has it all. Mobsters. Mormons. Elvis and Wayne Newton, Siegfried and Roy. It's a place where change is the one constant, and where the pursuit of happiness is the only law. In the words of writer Chuck Palahniuk, it's the place that looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night.
Linda Chase is the author of Surfing Women of the Waves and grew up in Las Vegas. She lives in California.
Explores the fascinating story of Sin City, from its origins as a desert outpost to today's eye-popping fantasyland
Linda Chase is the author of several works on contemporary realism including Hyperrealism, (Rizzoli, NY 1975) and Photorealism at the Millennium (with Louis Meisel), Harry N. Abrams, NY 2000. She has been the director and curator of several national and international realist exhibitions and has written numerous museum and gallery catalogs. Her ground-breaking interviews with the Photorealists in the early 1970s helped to establish the place of this movement in contemporary art.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781423604884 |
| ISBN 10 | 1423604881 |
| Title | Picturing LAS Vegas |
| Author | Linda Chase |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Gibbs M. Smith Inc |
| Year published | 2009-10-15 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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