Place Matters: Critical Topographies in Word and Image 9780228014850

Table of 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

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