Place matters : critical topographies in word and image / edited by Jonathan Bordo, Blake Fitzpatrick, and W. J. T. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bordo, Jonathan, editor.

Fitzpatrick, Blake, 1955- editor.

Mitchell, W. J. T., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geocriticism.

Landscapes in art.

Place (Philosophy) in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Many but not all the contributions in this volume originated as presentations at the Critical Topography conference in 2015.

Bordo and Fitzpatrick coin the term critical topography to describe how thought and symbolic forms invent place through text and image. International in scope, Canadian in spirit, and grounded in singular sites, Place Matters presents critical topography as an approach to analyze, interpret, and reflect on place.

Contents:

Cover

PLACE MATTERS

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Artist contributions

Figures

Acknowledgments

Prologue: RE: PLACE

Introduction

Landscape, Art, and Ecology

1 From Nature? The Critical Landscapes of Poussin and Cézanne

2 Newfoundland Painting and the Metaphysics of Light

The Quiet Zone and the Myth of the Virtual | colour section 1

3 Placing Here: Finlay, Fulton, and Skelton and the Formation of the British School of Aesthetic Chorography

4 The "Art of Walking" according to the Puritans

The Hamish Fulton Album

5 Fulton's Walks: Between Documentation and Experience

6 Hamish Fulton Interview

7 Walking with Hamish Fulton into the Vanishing Point vers le Canada

Walk Texts | colour section 1

The Anthropocene, Ruins, and Nuclear Exposure

8 Placing the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene Project | colour section 1

9 A Haunt of Jackals: Towards a Critical Topography of Ruins

The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone | colour section 1

Rooting in the Ashes | colour section 1

X Marks the Spot | colour section 1

Borders and Trauma

10 Conversations on Walls

The Olive Tree, the Land, and the Palestinian Struggle against Settler Colonialism | colour section 1

Crossing | colour section 1

11 Manto's Madmen: Partition and Psychoanalytic Displacement in "Toba Tek Singh"

Memory and the Keeping Place

12 The Darkest Tapestry: Indian Residential School Memorialization and the Model for a "Keeping Place" in the Qu'Appelle Valley

Pole Positions under Vancouver's Burrard Bridge: Exposure and Intersection on Indigenous Land in Bell Tower of False Creek | colour section 1

13 The Community for Which the Land Longs: Cape Town's District Six Museum

14 Ai Weiwei's Memory Work at Lesbos, Greece

Geopoetics.

15 The Messon of the Island of Lesbos: Toponym as Evidence in the History of Ideas, or Introduction to Ten Poems from The Name of Sappho's Daughter

Epilogue: Announcing the Disaster

Postscript

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Bordo, Jonathan Place Matters

ISBN:

9780228014850

0228014859

OCLC:

1346361744