[Text at Schaden.com:] The new english edition. "The New West" first appeared in 1974 and has been out of print since the Eighties. The book is presented here in a new edition, with the original foreword by John Szarkowski, and a new essay by Heinz Liesbrock, as well as a recent conversation between Robert Adams and Thomas Weski. " Adams's theme is the transformation of the old West into the one-dimensional America of the present, the perversion of a landscape wich once stood for , the idea of an entire nation, until it becomes the background for a tame and corrupt society." (Heinz Liesbrock). „The wide open spaces of the American West have all but disappeared. Robert Adam's legendary book The new West tells of what has taken their place: the destruction of a once grandiose landscape by settlement which imposed highways, cheap housing developments and the vacuous chaos of advertising signs in the cities.“ (Publisher’s text).