Background
William Fox was born on November 26, 1949 in San Diego, California, United States, into the family of William Lloyd and Lynn G. Fox.
George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States
Fox earned a Doctor of Philosophy at George Washington University in 1989.
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William received a Bachelor of Arts at St. Lawrence University in 1975.
William studied at Harvard University, where he got a Master of Divinity in 1978.
(This is a profoundly personal, even idiosyncratic book ab...)
This is a profoundly personal, even idiosyncratic book about the most public of subjects--living in the postmodern West at the end of the millennium and what the cities, the freeways, the open spaces, and the billboards tell us about ourselves.
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1996
(Foreword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long i...)
Foreword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long inspired complex responses from a population largely shaped by European sensibilities toward land and its uses. In Mapping the Empty Fox considers how eight of the state's most distinguished and innovative contemporary artists have responded to the harsh, enigmatic landscapes of the Great Basin and how, through their work, they have expressed and helped to define our attitudes toward the space we call the West.
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1999
(It is the only absolute desert in North America, a four-h...)
It is the only absolute desert in North America, a four-hundred-square-mile dry lake bed so desolate that nothing ever grows there. Vast and featureless, Nevada's Black Rock Desert defies visual measurement—much to the consternation of off-roaders who venture out onto this playa only to run out of gas before reaching the other side. It is the largest flat area on the continent, where the sound barrier was broken in a car. And it is a place of total silence—not even birds or insects live here—except when thousands of humans congregate for the Burning Man Festival on Labor Day weekend.
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2002
(Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career c...)
Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career contemplating the complex ways that landscape, human cognition, and history collide to create our perceptions and treatment of place. In Playa Works, Fox considers the West's emptiest spaces - the playas, or dry beds, of the ancient lakes that once filled much of the Great Basin. Among the flattest, most barren places on the planet, the West's playas have haunted the American imagination since the Fremont expedition first surveyed them in the early nineteenth century.
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2002
(The five essays of this collection take us to the Le Brea...)
The five essays of this collection take us to the Le Brea Tar Pits and local oilfields, the telescopes and telecommunication towers of Mt. Wilson, massive landfills, the Forest Lawn Memorial and Griffith parks, a Hollywood special effects firm, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. All of these facilities are devoted to manipulating time on our behalf, be it how we represent prehistory, attempt to maintain an identity after death, or make movies on Mars.
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2006
(William Fox’s writing for the last several years has been...)
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.
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2009
(This is a story that few know, but those who do are its d...)
This is a story that few know, but those who do are its disciples. The story, of the highest and driest of all American deserts, the Great Basin, has no finer voice than that of William Fox. Fox’s book is divided into the three sections of the title. In “The Void,” he leads us through the Great Basin landscape, investigating our visual response to it—a pattern of mountains and valleys on a scale of such magnitude and emptiness and undifferentiated by shape, form, and color that the visual and cognitive expectations of the human mind are confounded and impaired.
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2016
William Fox was born on November 26, 1949 in San Diego, California, United States, into the family of William Lloyd and Lynn G. Fox.
William received a Bachelor of Arts at St. Lawrence University in 1975. After that, he studied at Harvard University, where he got a Master of Divinity in 1978. Finally, he earned a Doctor of Philosophy at George Washington University in 1989.
William L. Fox is a writer, independent scholar, and poet whose work focuses on how human cognition transforms land into landscape. He has edited several literary magazines and presses, among them the West Coast Poetry Review, and worked as a consulting editor for university presses, as well as being the former director of the poetry program at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers.
In the visual arts, Fox has exhibited text works in more than two dozen group and solo exhibitions in seven countries, served as the Associate Director of the Nevada Museum of Art, and then as the visual arts and architecture critic for the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Fox has published poems, articles, reviews, and essays in more than seventy magazines, has had several collections of poetry published in three countries, and has written ten nonfiction books. He has taught rock-climbing at the University of Nevada, as well as led treks in the Himalaya. In 2001 - 2002 he spent two-and-a-half months in the Antarctic with the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writers Program.
He has been a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute, the Clark Art Institute, the Australian National University, the National Museum of Australia, and the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.
Fox has also worked as a team member of NASA’s Haughton-Mars Project, which tests methods of exploring Mars on Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic. He currently is the lead strategist for the Art & Environment initiative at the Nevada Museum of Art.
(This is a profoundly personal, even idiosyncratic book ab...)
1996(William Fox’s writing for the last several years has been...)
2009(The five essays of this collection take us to the Le Brea...)
2006(It is the only absolute desert in North America, a four-h...)
2002(This is a story that few know, but those who do are its d...)
2016(Foreword by Jeff Kelley. Nevada's open spaces have long i...)
1999(Writer-poet William L. Fox has spent much of his career c...)
2002Fox is a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and Explorers Club.
William married a director of public affairs Lynn Smith on August 1, 1981. They have a daughter Hallie.