Travel, Tourism and Art

Art, in its many forms, has long played an important role in people's imagination, experience and remembrance of places, cultures and travels as well as in their motivation to travel. Travel and tourism, on the other hand, have also inspired numerous artists and featured in many artworks. The fascinating relationships between travel, tourism and art encompass a wide range of phenomena from historical 'Grand Tours' during which a number of travellers experienced or produced artwork, to present-day travel inspired by art, artworks produced by contemporary travellers or artworks produced by locals for tourist consumption. Focusing on the representations of 'touristic' places, locals, travellers and tourists in artworks; the role of travel and tourism in inspiring artists; as well as the role of art and artwork in imagining, experiencing and remembering places and motivating travel and tourism; this edited volume provides a space for an exploration of both historical and contemporary relationships between travel, tourism and art. Bringing together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and fields of study including geography, anthropology, history, philosophy, and urban, cultural, tourism, art and leisure studies, this volume discusses a range of case studies across different art forms and locales.

Tijana RakiÄ+, Edinburgh Napier University, UK and Jo-Anne Lester, University of Brighton, UK.

Chapter 1 Relationships between Travel, Tourism and Art: An Introduction, Tijana Raki?, Jo-Anne Lester; Part I Representations of 'Touristic' Places, Locals, Travellers and Tourists in Artworks; Chapter 2 The Tourist Experience in Graphic Satire, 1796-1914, Tony Seaton; Chapter 3 'Lofty Hills Streaming With Water-Falls': The Tourist Landscape of Johnson and Boswell, Brian Hudson; Chapter 4 The Art of the Railway Poster: Travel, Tourism and the Visual Representation of Place in Britain, 1920-1955, Stephen Williams; Chapter 5 Towards a Realist Ontology of the Holiday: Seduction, Denial and Delusion in the Narratives of Tourism in Twentieth Century Opera, David Botterill; Part II Imagining, Experiencing and Remembering Places through Artwork; Chapter 6 Expeditions in Persia: Travel Journals and Artwork as Historical Documents, Mahsa Rouzrokh, Heather Mair; Chapter 7 Carving the Past: Art, Tourism, and Heritage in Chincoteague, Virginia, Kristin M. Sullivan; Chapter 8 Welcome to Wherever: Art in an Airport, Jo Ankor; Part III Travelling Artists; Chapter 9 The Nomadic Village: Communal Creativity and Political Subversion in a Temporary Settlement, Sharon Wilson, Pau Obrador; Chapter 10 Tropical Impressions of a Traveller: Caribbean Place and the Retouching of Sensory Experience in the Paintings of Steve Bonner, Marsha Pearce; Chapter 11 Martin Parr: A Traveller-Critic and a Professional Post-tourist in a Small World, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Elena Stylianou; Chapter 12 Hunting the Touristic Animal through Ceramic Art in Alberta, Canada, Fiona Thompson, Kevin Hannam; Part IV Art, Place Image and Travel Motivation; Chapter 13 The Artist and the Tourist: Gauguin in Tahiti, Jean-François Staszak; Chapter 14 Image, Identity and Tourism: Public Art in Cultural Quarters, John McCarthy; Chapter 15 Branding Montmartre: Tourism, Popular Culture, and the Artistic Bohemia, Alexander Vari;