{"product_id":"redlin-or-rodin-essays-on-midwestern-scenery-paperback","title":"Redlin or Rodin: Essays on Midwestern Scenery - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher Vondracek\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Vondracek\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eDancing with Welk: Music, Memory, and Prairie Troubadours\u003c\/i\u003e and the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eRattlesnake Summer\u003c\/i\u003e, featuring a poem for each of South Dakota's sixty-six counties. He is the Washington correspondent with the \u003ci\u003eMinnesota Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e and former agricultural reporter for the newspaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923755073843,"sku":"9781496248206","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/bvIIVYKIC49781496248206.webp?v=1793825645","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/redlin-or-rodin-essays-on-midwestern-scenery-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}