any recommendations for modernist depictions of agriculture and food production?
i've included some example images below.
some keywords:
* mechanized agriculture
* industrial farming
* industrial food production
* farm as factory
* farm modernization
* chemical agriculture
* green revolution
i've got the following materials on my to-read list:
* "every farm a factory: the industrial ideal in american agriculture" by deborah fitzgerald
* Ch. 8 of "seeing like a state": "Taming Nature: An Agriculture of Legibility and Simplicity" by james c. scott
* "Farming according to 'the laws of beauty': Aesthetics and agriculture" by david cooper (https://www.academia.edu/14380031/Farming_according_to_the_laws_of_beauty_Aesthetics_and_agriculture)
* "the american technological sublime" by david nye (not sure if it has anything about agriculture specifically)
* "the machine in the garden: technology and the pastoral" by leo marx
if you're familiar with any written works looking at this kind of aesthetic specifically, i'd love to hear about it.
also, if you have suggestions for archives (online or irl) that might have more materials like this, i'm all ears.
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