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Empty Spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history - Perspectives on emptiness in modern history (Hardcover)
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Empty Spaces: perspectives on emptiness in modern history - Perspectives on emptiness in modern history (Hardcover)
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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.
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