Place matters : critical topographies in word and image
Record details
- ISBN: 9780228014850
- ISBN: 0228014859
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxv, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps.
remote - Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
Content descriptions
General Note: | Many but not all the contributions in this volume originated as presentations at the Critical Topography conference in 2015. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 20, 2022). |
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Subject: | Place (Philosophy) in art Place (Philosophy) in literature Landscapes in art Geocriticism Symbolism |