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Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity Crouch, David (University of Hull, UK) 1st edition
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Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity
Crouch, David (University of Hull, UK)
The idea of 'flirting' with space is central to this book. Space is conceptualised as being in constant flux as we make our way through various contexts in our daily lives, and is considered in relation to encounters with complexities and flows of material culture. This book focuses on journeys, which are perceived as dynamic processes of contemporary life and its spaces, and how creativity happens in the inter-relations of space and journeys encourage creativity. Unravelled through a range of empirical case studies of journeys through and encountered with space, this book builds new critical syntheses of the intertwining of space and life. Based on investigations undertaken by the author over the past 20 years, it explores the mundane and the exotic, the 'lay' and the 'artistic', combining and inter-relating them in a diversity of time and expression, fleeting and surviving. Such investigations, using both visual and non-visual material, include examinations of allotment holding, the work of artists, caravanning and tourism, photography and parish maps. The analyses of such seemingly disparate subjects are linked together and build on each other to create a fascinating and original view of humanity's interaction with space. Included are fresh discussions of belonging, disorientation and the working of identity and play. The notion of 'gentle politics' is introduced.
162 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 19, 2016 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138249776 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 166 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 10 mm · 310 g |
| Language | English |
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