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Mehrhoff, W. Arthur. "The Rainbow and the People: The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial as Symbolic Landscape," Saint Louis University, September 1986.
This dissertation examines original documents relating to the development of the Gateway Arch, the nation’s largest national monument. I argue that the linear American concept of Progress objectified by the Gateway Arch constitutes a totemic, rather than a dialectical, understanding of nature that anticipates a future resolution of the fundamental tension between Nature and Culture to be achieved by means of technology. This employs a phenomenological approach to examine the Arch from multiple perspectives, ranging from its archetypal meaning in classical antiquity to its current function as a sign system for post-modern American society.
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