{"product_id":"redlin-or-rodin-christopher-vondracek-9781496248206","title":"Redlin or Rodin: Essays on Midwestern Scenery","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe virus arrives, the world shutters, and in Washington, DC, the homesick journalist Christopher Vondracek--recently relocated from South Dakota--starts scrolling through digitized oil paintings by the Midwestern nostalgia artist Terry Redlin. Vondracek traces Redlin's coming-of-age during the Farm Crisis as well as his own fleeting memories of a small-town wracked with upheaval from farm foreclosures and a shifting political perspective on the prairie. The author takes an inside-out look at the entrenched cultural tropes and portraits of rural, rustic nostalgia in an age of global grain markets, collapsing rural communities, and changing heartland values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVondracek often asks of this land, \"Is it a Redlin?\" seeking to reconcile the idyllic portrayal of his American heartland with the reality unfolding on TV and social media channels. In \u003ci\u003eRedlin or Rodin\u003c\/i\u003e he looks to understand how the romantic palette of a farm country pastoral scene can obscure the industrialization of the very same land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Vondracek\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496248201\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496248206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bison Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Christopher Vondracek","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49171196248319,"sku":"9781496248206","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/redlin-or-rodin-christopher-vondracek-9781496248206","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}