Creative Geographies

Since the publication of Iconography of the Landscape and Fields of Vision, wherein the valuable contribution of the analysis of representational landscape painting, among other creative practices, to debates on landscape, space, politics and power was realized, geography’s engagements with the visual arts have undergone a rapid expansion. This quantitative increase in geography’s use of art as an empirical entry point into key debates has been accompanied by significant qualitative shifts. Drawing on close to a decade of research in this field, Hawkins explores the challenges and potentials of these new terrains of geography-art relations, including the ways in which twentieth-century artistic practices expanded previous understandings of the mediums, materialities and sites that constituted the production and consumption of art, and the ways in which this expanded field has seen creative practitioners and theorists embrace geographical discourses and practices.