Ebook: For Creative Geographies

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: For Creative Geographies; PART I Art and the Making/Transforming of Geography; 1 Placing Art at the Royal Geographical Society: Creative Compass, Exhibition Imaginaries, and Cartographic Critiques; 2 Connecting with Gertrude: Woven Threads and Written Traces-Crafting Disciplinary Histories; PART II A Geographical Turn? Placing Production, Producing Sites; 3 Producing Sites: Michael Landy's Break Down; 4 Framing the World: Portraits of Place and Richard Wentworth's Urban Imaginary.;This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form and import of geography-art relations. Such reflections are increasingly important as geography-art intersections come to encompass not only relationships built through interpretation, but also those built through shared practices, wherein geographers work as and with artists, curators and other cr.