Flirting with Space

David Crouch is Professor Emeritus in Cultural Geography and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Derby, UK

'Crouch invites his readers on a journey that meanders through the workings of myriad artists, sojourners, and theorists, evoking resonances between seemingly unrelated pathways of intellectual and emotional discovery. Flirting with Space is a work of enchanting potential, written from the unique perspective of a mature artist and distinguished scholar.' Sally Ness, University of California Riverside, USA 'A phenomenal and sensational work, Flirting with Space speaks of David Crouch's intense and passionate interest in how it feels to feel. His spatial theories on life as it's lived are spry and vital, asserting the generative and creative power held by people, trusting in the ordinariness of emotion and common experience, and seeking out practices of humane value.' Hayden Lorimer, University of Glasgow, UK 'In offering the reader a scholarly account of how to live more creatively, Flirting with Space surely achieves something significant. David Crouch is an academic in the field of cultural geography so it is not surprising to find cultural geographic ideas playing centre stage in this book. What is more surprising, perhaps, is the way in which he weaves those ideas together with others more at home within the disciplines of philosophy, art history, social science and cultural studies, skilfully traversing disciplines in a potentially useful way.' Cassone 'Flirting with Space offers an illuminating insight into the lay geographies and practices of performativity, travel/tourism and creativity and an important contribution to theorisations on space, the body and emotions, and everyday life.' Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice '... this is a book for reading for pleasure and I am sure it must have been written for the same reason.' Geografiska Annaler Series B 'David Crouch’s extensive specialist knowledge [...] and an unusual breadth of reading, inform every aspect of this highly intelligent and persuasive book. I take it to be a timely plea for en

• Chapter 101 Prologue, David Crouch; Chapter 1 Flirting with Space, David Crouch; Chapter 2 Everyday Abstraction: Geographical Knowledge in the Art of Peter Lanyon, David Crouch; Chapter 3 Spacing, Performing and Becoming: Tangles in the Mundane, David Crouch; Chapter 4 The Play of Spacetime, David Crouch; Chapter 5 Expressive Encounters, David Crouch; Chapter 6 Landscape and the Poetics of Flirting (with) Space, David Crouch; Chapter 7 Some Conclusions, David Crouch;