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oapen-20.500.12657-393992024-03-27T12:23:21Z Empty Spaces Campbell, Courtney J. Giovine, Allegra Keating, Jennifer space place absence Edward Hopper Connemara rural urban air sea empire territory Empire Marketing Board Biography & True Stories thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial powers to artists and urban dwellers, sought to construct, control and maintain (physically and discursively) empty space, and by which processes is emptiness discovered, visualised and reimagined? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, from Brazil to Russia and Ireland. It considers the visual, including the art of Edward Hopper and the work of the British Empire Marketing Board, while concluding with a section that examines constructions of emptiness in relation to capitalism, development and the (re)appropriation of urban space. In doing so, it foregrounds the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial, national, cultural and urban history. Published as part of the IHR Conference Series by the Institute of Historical Research. 2020-05-27T16:45:58Z 2020-05-27T16:45:58Z 2019 book ONIX_20200527_9781909646520_25 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39399 eng IHR Conference Series application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781909646520.pdf University of London Press University of London Press 10.14296/919.9781909646520 10.14296/919.9781909646520 4af45bb1-d463-422d-9338-fa2167dddc34 University of London Press 226 London open access
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How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial powers to artists and urban dwellers, sought to construct, control and maintain (physically and discursively) empty space, and by which processes is emptiness discovered, visualised and reimagined? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, from Brazil to Russia and Ireland. It considers the visual, including the art of Edward Hopper and the work of the British Empire Marketing Board, while concluding with a section that examines constructions of emptiness in relation to capitalism, development and the (re)appropriation of urban space. In doing so, it foregrounds the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial, national, cultural and urban history. Published as part of the IHR Conference Series by the Institute of Historical Research.
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