Place matters : critical topographies in word and image /

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"A place comes into existence through the depth of relationships that underwrite a physical location with layers of sedimented names. In Place Matters scholars and artists conduct varied forms of place-based inquiry to demonstrate why place matters. Lavishly illustrated, the volume brings into...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bordo, Jonathan (Editor), Fitzpatrick, Blake, 1955- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Place (Philosophy) in art.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Landscapes in art.
Geocriticism.
Symbolism.
ART / Environmental & Land Art.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Landscape, Art, and Ecology
  • From Nature? The Critical Landscapes of Poussin and Cézanne
  • Newfoundland Painting and the Metaphysics of Light
  • Placing Here: Finlay, Fulton, and Skelton and the Formation of the British School of Aesthetic Chorography
  • The "Art of Walking" according to the Puritans
  • The Hamish Fulton Album
  • Fulton's Walks: Between Documentation and Experience
  • Hamish Fulton Interview
  • Walking with Hamish Fulton into the Vanishing Point vers le Canada
  • The Anthropocene, Ruins, and Nuclear Exposure
  • Placing the Anthropocene
  • A Haunt of Jackals: Towards a Critical Topography of Ruins
  • Borders and Trauma
  • Conversations on Walls
  • Manto's Madmen: Partition and Psychoanalytic Displacement in "Toba Tek Singh"
  • Memory and the Keeping Place
  • The Darkest Tapestry: Indian Residential School Memorialization and the Model for a "Keeping Place" in the Qu'Appelle Valley
  • The Community for Which the Land Longs
  • Ai Weiwei's Memory Work at Lesbos, Greece
  • Geopoetics
  • The Messon of the Island of Lesbos
  • Epilogue
  • Postscript
  • Contributors
  • Index

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