3 Placing Here: Finlay, Fulton, and Skelton and the Formation of the British School of Aesthetic Chorography

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Prologue xix
6. Introduction 3
7. Landscape, Art, and Ecology
8. From Nature? The Critical Landscapes of Poussin and Cézanne 23
9. Newfoundland Painting and the Metaphysics of Light 44
10. Placing Here: Finlay, Fulton, and Skelton and the Formation of the British School of Aesthetic Chorography 55
11. The “Art of Walking” according to the Puritans 71
12. The Hamish Fulton Album
13. Fulton’s Walks: Between Documentation and Experience 87
14. Hamish Fulton Interview 92
15. Walking with Hamish Fulton into the Vanishing Point vers le Canada 105
16. The Anthropocene, Ruins, and Nuclear Exposure
17. Placing the Anthropocene 117
18. A Haunt of Jackals: Towards a Critical Topography of Ruins 129
19. Borders and Trauma
20. Conversations on Walls 153
21. Manto’s Madmen: Partition and Psychoanalytic Displacement in “Toba Tek Singh” 176
22. Memory and the Keeping Place
23. The Darkest Tapestry: Indian Residential School Memorialization and the Model for a “Keeping Place” in the Qu’Appelle Valley 193
24. The Community for Which the Land Longs 213
25. Ai Weiwei’s Memory Work at Lesbos, Greece 231
26. Geopoetics
27. The Messon of the Island of Lesbos 249
28. Epilogue 273
29. Postscript 283
30. Contributors 289
31. Index 297