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x, 115 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm |
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Note |
Catalog of a exhibition held at the Spencer Museum of Art, August 2018. |
Contents |
Foreward / Nancy Kassenbaum Baker -- Preface: a new partnership / Saralyn Reece Hardy, Dietrich Earnhard -- Research on Kansas Farmers' Land and Water Use Decision / Dietrich Earnhart -- Cultivating Kansas Farmers / Kate Meyer -- Plates -- Acknowledgements. |
Summary |
In the landscape of the American imagination the Kansas farmer looms large, an icon of midwestern diligence and bounty. But just as the states seemingly flat horizon denotes earthly riches, the Kansas farmer contains multitudes. The photographs by Larry Schwarm capture this world in all its depth and diversity, conveying in breadth and detail the grit and mystery, the art and science, of farming in Kansas. The outgrowth of a collaborative study of crop production, farming practices, and land use in Kansas, this volume looks into the larger questions the study raised: why farmers choose to farm and what that life entails. |
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Larry Schwarm, distinguished professor of photography in the School of Art, Design, and Creative Industries at Wichita State University, hails from a farming family with a century-long relationship to the land, and his photographs reflect a keen sense of both the beauty and hardship of the farmers life. Taken in the midst of a record-long drought, they picture the age-old industry caught up in the drama of the changing climateKansas farmers and ranchers tending crops and animals while working the earth in an ever-shifting balance with nature. As documentary and fine art, these exquisite photographs and accompanying commentary speak to the ageless nature of farming and the pressing questions confronting the present-day farmer in Kansas. |
Subject |
Schwarm, Larry, 1944- -- Exhibitions.
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Schwarm, Larry, 1944- (OCoLC)fst00490741
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Landscape photography -- Kansas -- Exhibitions.
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Farms -- Kansas -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
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Water resources development -- Research -- Kansas -- Exhibitions.
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Kansas -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.
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Farms. (OCoLC)fst00921422
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Landscape photography. (OCoLC)fst00992030
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Water resources development -- Research. (OCoLC)fst01172022
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Kansas. (OCoLC)fst01204323
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Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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Exhibition, pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01424187
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Added Author |
Meyer, Kate, editor.
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Schwarm, Larry, 1944-
Photographs. Selections.
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Added Title |
Kansas farmers |
ISBN |
9780700626557 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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0700626557 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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