Mapping beyond measure : art, cartography, and the space of global modernity / Simon Ferdinand.

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Over the last century a growing number of visual artists have been captivated by the entwinements of beauty and power, truth and artifice, and the fantasy and functionality they perceive in geographical mapmaking. This field of "map art" has moved into increasing prominence in recent years yet criti...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Cultural geographies + rewriting the Earth.
Main Author: Ferdinand, Simon (Author)
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
Series:Cultural geographies + rewriting the Earth.
Subjects:
Maps in art.
Cartography in art.
Cultural geography.
Physical Description:xiv, 298 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The shock of the whole : phenomenologies of global mapping in Solomon Nikritin's The old and the new
  • Combined and uneven cartography : maps and time in Alison Hildreth's Forthrights and meanders
  • Drawing like a state : maps, modernity, and warfare in Gert Jan Kocken's Depictions
  • Insular imaginations : statehood, islands, and globalization in Satomi Matoba's Utopia
  • Cartography at ground level : spectrality and streets in Jeremy Wood's My ghost and meridians
  • Another Chorein : alternative ontologies in Peter Greenaway's A walk through H
  • Envoi : artists astride shifting mapping paradigms.