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The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography | 
| Author: Katharine Harmon
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 34430
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 26,5 cm x 23,5 cm
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 9.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1568987625
Dewey Decimal Number: 760.0449912
EAN: 9781568987620
ASIN: 1568987625
Publication Date: September 23, 2009
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Product Description
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.
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Fantastic Book July 20, 2010
F. Konhaus
My wife loves maps and I got this for her birthday. We have discovered many new artists through this book and highly recommend it.
A Trail of Discovery for the Creative Map Makers March 24, 2010
Guy Whitney (Chicago)
This book is a delicious find. It undertakes nothing less than to gather into one source a wide variety of approaches to mapping the world of our imaginations. A wonderful collection with a wide range of points of view about how the world can be seen and understood. The wide range of artists, from well known to not so well recognized, each brings a unique vision to bear in the way of understanding their worlds. It's truly mind expanding in the various cosmologies and hypothetical what ifs that are represented between the covers. This book supports repeated immersion as one considers the different worlds that are conjured within. As an artist I find the contents to be wonderfully liberating while considering my own thoughts on the subject. Congratulations to Katherine Harmon on such a fine job of researching and assembling these images. Surely a labor of love as is shown to us in style and content. A great gift for the creative one in your life.
Best art book of the year! December 27, 2009
Art Mama (Lakeland, MN)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is wonderful exploration of maps in different mediums and genres. Harmon's pages intermingle both well-known and emerging artists, creating an interesting and exciting collage of photos. This book offers something for everyone - my personal favorite is page 201.
An outstanding survey packed with 360 color illustrations December 18, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
THE MAP AS ART: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS EXPLORE CARTOGRAPHY is an outstanding survey recommended not just for art libraries but for those involved in geography and international culture. It provides a survey of artists' map expressions, showing how artistic cartography ultimately creates a world free of geographic boundaries. Map-related visions by some 160 modern artists make for an outstanding survey packed with 360 color illustrations.
A gorgeous book for map and art lovers December 10, 2009
Robert C. Ross (New Jersey)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Harmon created the best selling You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination in 2004. The book contained a wide variety of maps, from fantastic historical maps to modern art versions of alternative realities. Harmon writes that many artists loved the book, and asked her to look at their work for inclusion in a new volume. The result is The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography edited by Harmon and with essays by Gayle Clemans.
The book is beautifully produced on excellent stock, binding and gorgeous reproductions; the artists use maps as a "medium for expressing their observations, passions and anxieties about the contemporary world."
There are 360 maps made from all sorts of media, traditional painting, modified globes, tree branches, butterfly wings, spider webs and more. Unusual examples include:
Kim Baranowski's map of alien-abduction sites, which is part of the "Mappa Mundi" series: "information that would give schoolchildren nightmares; areas of the world not yet hit by asteroids, potential U.S. nuclear targets ... or "show-and-tell for the paranoid."
Vik Muniz created a world map using junk from garbage dumps, assembled with the help of youngsters from the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro.
Corriette Schoenaerts, 'Europe,' 2005, is a construction of countries and continents made out of clothing.
In 2002, China's Long March Project embarked upon a `Walking Visual Display' along the route of the 1934-1936 historic 6000-mile Long March, and Beijing-based artist Qin kept tracked the group's route in a tattooed map on his back. Three years later, Qin continued the trek where the original marchers had left off, accompanied by a camera crew and a tattoo artist, who continually updated the map on Qin's back.
Harmon's favorite is from the Bambanani women's group, a South African group of HIV-positive women who created body maps tracking battles with the virus: "Today I feel good I am happy. I am free ... I've disappointed the devil" wrote one artist on her map..
Harmon writes: "I've given a lot of thought to why people respond to maps. It perhaps comes down to us locating ourselves in an inconceivably vast universe on one hand, and in our own complicated lives as well." This lovely and challenging collection gave me a great deal to think about, not only as a map lover, but as someone who enjoys studying art in finely produced books.
Robert C. Ross 2009
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