ORCID
- Smith, Phil: 0000-0002-0711-8242
Abstract
‘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 hard 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.
DOI
10.1111/j.1931-0846.2015.12146.x
Publication Date
2017-07-01
Publication Title
Geographical Review
Volume
107
Issue
3
First Page
e33
Last Page
e36
ISSN
0016-7428
Organisational Unit
School of Art, Design and Architecture
Recommended Citation
Smith, P. (2017) 'Geographical Aesthetics: Imagining Space, Staging Encounters', Geographical Review, 107(3), pp. e33-e36. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2015.12146.x
