Imaging Hoover Dam: The Making of a Cultural Icon

by Anthony F. Arrigo

The mighty Hoover Dam, starting as a dream of land developers and farmers, became the most ambitious civil engineering project of the Great Depression. This landmark in the middle of the Mojave Desert, holding back the largest man-made lake in America, also became, like Mount Rushmore or the Empire State Building, a visual and cultural icon. The power and meanings of this icon came not through a single image but via myriad visual representations,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087417953X
• ISBN13: 9780874179538
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"