Flirting with space: Thinking landscape relationally

Cultural Geographies

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-18

  Crouch, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Art practice; Landscape; Performativity; Poetics; Spacing

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ART; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; SPACING;

EID: 75849155730     PISSN: 14744740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1474474009349996     Document Type: Article

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34. D. Crouch, 'Spacing, performance and becoming'.
35. In this way the performative notions of spacing and becoming make more complex the social constructivist character of doing, that, whilst drawing attention to the vitality, non-choreographed character of living, its practical ontology and lay geography, confines its concerns to human action
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50. Ibid. p. 171 et seq.
51. Ibid. p 190 et seq.
52. Compare S. Rycroft, 'The nature of op art: Bridget Riley and the art of nonrepresentation', Environment and planning d: society and space 23(3) (2005), pp. 351-71.
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55. D. Crouch and M. Toogood, 'Everyday abstraction: geographical knowledge in the art of Peter Lanyon', Ecumene 6(1) (1999), pp. 72-89.
56. M. Garlake, Peter Lanyon: air, land and sea (London, South Bank Centre, 1992), p. 11.
57. Crouch and Toogood, 'Everyday abstraction'.
58. Ibid. n. 80.
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62. However Casey argues that in Diebenkorn's early middle period works (Sausilito, Berkeley and Albuquerque series)
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64. He veered away from what Bolt calls 'working hot' and instead sought a more deliberate character of 'mapping' that he takes to imply a more direct transfer of 'reality' [sic]. However, arguably these series of Diebenkorn are as resonant of hot working as de Kooning's, if more carefully enacted, suggesting wider application of Bolt and Deleuze in the interpretation of artwork. Indeed, Casey seems over-concerned with categorizing artwork, 'productive' and 'reproductive' mapping
65. Casey, Earth mapping, p. 183. It may be argued that all artwork is abstract in some sense; and, riskily, also holds a character of expressivity, and reference. The matter of difference concerns the degree of plasticity or restraint in the imagined reality of its representing.
66. Crouch and Toogood, 'Everyday abstraction'.
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96. Crouch, 'Spacing, performance and becoming'.
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102. Crouch and Toogood, 'Everyday abstraction'
103. Stephens, Peter Lanyon.
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105. Ibid. p. 64.
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114. Bolt, Art beyond representation, pp. 189-90.
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118. This is arguably so up to a point; see Cresswell, 'Landscape and the obliteration of practice', p. 271.
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120. Bolt, Art beyond representation, p. 190.