Place, Art, and Self: A Second Look

By Yi-Fu Tuan

A legendary geographer revisits a beloved work on art, environment, and personal history

One of the most influential and decorated scholars of his time, Yi-Fu Tuan transformed the study and understanding of place through his thirty seminal books in humanistic geography and environmental perception. Among his most notable books was Place, Art, and Self, a small, beautifully illustrated volume first published in 2004, in which he addressed the questions: "What do place, art, and self have in common? To what extent do place and art define who we are?" A favorite of Tuan's many diverse readers, it was revisited by the author near the end of his life, and this new edition expresses his updated take on how and why the arts are emblematic and revelatory of the self and our place in the world. Integrated throughout are thirty two amazing artworks by contemporary visual artists of places around the world, each complementary of Tuan's text with their respective message.

Through memoir and exceptional insights gained from a lifetime of reading, writing, teaching, and study, Tuan explored art in its myriad forms -- paintings, photographs, poetry, novels, films, dance, music -- and how it interacted with home and place to shape, define, and expand the self and a sense of who we are.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1960521187
• ISBN13: 9781960521187
• Release Date: May 2027
• Publisher: George F. Thompson Publishing
• Length: 104 Pages