The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography- - Couverture souple

Harmon, Katharine; Clemans, Gayle

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1568989725 ISBN 13 : 9781568989723

Editeur : Princeton Architectural Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Map as Art This volume by Harmon, author of the bestselling book "You Are Here," extends that book's celebration of mapmaking to the world of artists' maps. Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the places of artists' maps, that happy combination of information and illusion that flourishes in basement studios and downtown galleries alike. It is little surprise that, in an era of globalized politics, culture, and ecology, contemporary artists are drawn to maps to express their visions. Using paint, salt, souvenir tea towels, or their own bodies, map artists explore a world free of geographical constraints.

Katharine Harmon knows this territory. As the author of our best-selling book You Are Here, she has inspired legions of new devotees of imaginative maps. In The Map as Art, Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, Maira Kalman, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz and many more less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art. Essays by Gayle Clemans bring an in-depth look into the artists' maps of Joyce Kozloff, Landon Mackenzie, Ingrid Calame, Guillermo Kuitca, and Maya Lin. Together, the beautiful reproductions and telling commentary make this an essential volume for anyone open to exploring new paths.

Biographie de l'auteur

Katharine Harmon, author of You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, proposes a show-stopping hardcover book featuring map-related artistic visions. The Map as Art is filled with 250 works by well-known artists--Joyce Kozloff, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafer Eliasson, Paul Scher, William Kentridge, Vik Muniz, Guillermo Kuitca, Joseph Cornell, and Maya Lin, for example--and many more less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton Architectural Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1568989725
• ISBN 13: 9781568989723
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 256