This research is a biography. It follows the creative and working life of Peter Lanyon, an artist born in 1918 in St Ives, as he painted landscapes of his home county, Cornwall, and his travels abroad. Here I open up a dialogue between the biographical and geographical, exploring a path between past and present, using material objects alongside memories and narratives affected by those objects. I explore material, embodied and sensuous relationships between landscape, history and biography and look towards how land, sea and air are animated and animating, forging other forms of geographical knowledge. Lanyon’s work is conceived as ‘creative practice as research’. I work through the connective spaces between land, air and sea as Lanyon describes them in terms of his own movements, as politically expedient in thinking through spaces and times, bodies and places in terms of feminist ideas of sexual difference and elemental philosophies. As such I contribute to the debate on emotional and affectual geographies and explore the relationships between life and earth in a historically and temporally specific way. What is practiced, where it is practiced, can not be separated from how it is shaped, communicated and received. Breaking down notions of solid and fluid, mind and body, implicated in hierarchies of knowledge and practice, masculine and feminine is the over arching theme arising from Lanyon’s work as it is practiced and, taking impetus from Lanyon, within this project too.

Thesis (M.A. - Geography and Regional Development)--University of Arizona. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 222-238).

Orientador: João Osvaldo Rodrigues Nunes / Banca: Antonio Carlos Vitte / Banca: Eliseu Savério Sposito / Banca: Divino José da Silva / Banca: Rita de Cassia Martins de Souza Anselmo / Resumo: Partimos da tese que o romantismo germânico influenciou, decisivamente, a reelaboração das ciências humanas, neste caso, estudamos especificamente a ciência geográfica e sua constituição a partir do século XIX. Para isso compreendemos o juízo estético como fundamental para entender o desdobramento do romantismo germânico, já que defendemos que a estética romântica germânica, influenciada por Kant, proporcionou o desenvolvimento da ciência geográfica antecedida pela paisagem. Neste sentido a compreensão da paisagem do século XIX foi precedida pelos ideais românticos e se firmou, naquele momento, enquanto categoria estética-geográfica; assim, posteriormente, possibilitou o desenvolvimento das ciências da natureza e das ciências humanas, o que resultou na Geografia. Um dos primeiros interlocutores entre o romantismo, as ciências humanas e as ciências da natureza foi Humboldt que baseou suas observações também nos elementos estéticos para a natureza, daí a importância em verificarmos a relação estética na Geografia a partir de Kant, Schelling, Fichte, e Goethe para compreendermos as relações conceituais que compõe a paisagem do século XIX e o desenvolvimento da Geografia / Abstract: This research studies as the Germanic romanticism influenced decisively the reworking of the humanities in this case specifically studied geographical science and its formation from the nineteenth century. To understand this aesthetic judgment as fundamental to understanding the unfolding of Germanic Romanticism, as we argue that the Germanic Romantic style, influenced by Kant, enabled the development of geographical science preceded by the landscape. In order to understand the landscape of the nineteenth century was preceded by romantic ideals and established himself at that moment as an aesthetic category, geographical, so subsequently enabled the development of natural science and humanities, which resulted in Geography. One of the first contact between the romanticism of humanities and natural science was Humboldt who based his observations on the aesthetics for nature, hence the importance to verify the relationship between aesthetics in geography from Kant, Schelling, Fichte, and Goethe to understand the relationships of the concepts that comprise the landscape of the nineteenth century and the development of geography / Doutor

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