Geographical Aesthetics

Imagining Space, Staging Encounters

Bibliographic Data

ID4489002
AuthorsPhil Smith (0000-0002-3281-4223, University of Plymouth, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume107
Issue3
Pagese33-e36
Publication date2017-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeREVIEW
Review ofGeographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters, Elizabeth R Straughan, 2016
VenueGeographical Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1931-0846.2015.12146.x
OpenAlexW2471059602
LanguageEN

Geographical Aesthetics’ is ambitious. It seeks to marshal twelve papers on disparate subjects and with contrasting methodological and analytical approaches, advocate a new aesthetics by articulating key provisional theoretical principles, possible projects and trajectories, while re-describing geography as an always at least partially aesthetic discipline. Where its editors Harriet Hawkins and Elizabeth Straughan’s task is trickiest is where they feel out continuities across longstanding controversies - “ethereal and precious” aesthetics as tending to the apolitical (it is\nhard to fit, say, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Erika Fischer-Lichte and Hans-Thies Lehmann into this description), polarities of sublime and picturesque, aspirations for relational and synthesized practices of togetherness that tend towards “a sense of comfort” - and then seek to resolve or accommodate them with the collected papers and their general design

Aesthetics · Art · Geography · Space (punctuation) · Computer Science · History of Science and Medicine

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