Aereality: On the World from Above Review

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(More customer reviews)William Fox is flown West to East, musing all the way. He links his pilots into history, describing their work in context with their peers and predicesors. In the beginning he discusses the aerial point of view--what is seen by the observer aloft. Then he discusses art depicting the earth from an aerial perspective when the artist never leaves the ground. A serious work written in a conversational manner. Thought provoking material, especially about Australian artists. Of interest to artists and philosophers as well as geographers.
Deborah Ann Light (MRL's mother)

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William Fox's writing for the last several years has been focused on how we construct aerial views, either physically (by flying) or in our imaginations.In Aereality, he flies over earthworks in Nevada and Utah, soars through the world's largest open pit mine, and surveys Los Angeles, circumnavigating large swaths of true American urban sprawl. On the East Coast, he examines the elevated art of the Hudson River Valley and New York City. And finally, in Australia, Fox examines the history and current practice of both Euro-Australian and Aboriginal aerial views, and searches for the cognitive roots of our aerial imagination.Accompanying Fox throughout his travels is a rolling cast of enlightened fliers: geographers, museum curators, landscape photographers, anthropologists, and artists. He traverses the sky in prop planes, helicopters, and hot air balloons, all with the ultimate goal of knowing and experiencing the earth from the air.

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