As seen in O: The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Cool Hunting, and countless other media outlets, The Map as Art is available now in a paperback edition. This volume by Katharine Harmon, author of our best-selling book You Are Here, extends that book's celebration of mapmaking to the world of artists' maps.It is little surprise that in an era of globalized politics, culture, and ecology contemporary artists are drawn to mapsto express their visions. Using paint, salt, souvenir tea towels, or their own bodies, map artists explore a world free ofgeographical constraints. 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, 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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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 creating art. All are wayfinders, charting the highways and byways of the spirit and the topography of the soul.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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'The Map As Art' offers an overview of mainly very recent work, with a brief historical and theoretical introduction. Well over a hundred artists are represented by some three hundred and sixty full-colour illustrations, each with a brief contexualising text. The book is organised into seven thematic sections: in five of these, one artist is singled out for fuller treatment in a short essay.
This is an attractive, colourful book that makes a strong case for the influence of cartography and schematic illustration on contemporary art practices in a variety of media. Inevitably, there is an emphasis on the political and identity-making aspects of map making and the ways in which artists can appropriate, comment upon and subvert these often concealed or unconscious agendas. However, the sheer variety of work and the strength of the artists' response to the map as object allows a purely aesthetic response free rein.
Recommended particularly to anyone with an interest in contemporary art, and more narrowly to anyone wishing to see or demonstrate how a common thematic preoccupation may result in a wide range of artistic achievement.
This is an attractive, colourful book that makes a strong case for the influence of cartography and schematic illustration on contemporary art practices in a variety of media. Inevitably, there is an emphasis on the political and identity-making aspects of map making and the ways in which artists can appropriate, comment upon and subvert these often concealed or unconscious agendas. However, the sheer variety of work and the strength of the artists' response to the map as object allows a purely aesthetic response free rein.
Recommended particularly to anyone with an interest in contemporary art, and more narrowly to anyone wishing to see or demonstrate how a common thematic preoccupation may result in a wide range of artistic achievement.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Sue
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Purchased this for my daughter who is doing A level art. Orginally saw it when an art teacher at the school I work at chose it as her favourite book. Daughter loves it and is using it to help her in her exam - her art teacher saw it and is now going to purchase it for their art department! Well thought out and good quality.
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Harmon's new book is a visual and literary feast!
15 Oct 2009
By Christine A. Stickler
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Format:Hardcover
As a great fan of Katherine Harmon's previous book: You are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, I looked forward to the release of this second book with a focus on maps. I doubted that I could be as taken with it as I was with her first but in fact believe that she has surpassed herself in creating a rich and layered exploration of maps as seen through the lens and reflections of artists. I love how she has divided the book into sections such as Conflict and Sorrow, Personal Terrain, Global Reckoning and Inner Visions which allow for an imaginative journey through the book.
The design and layout by Jane Jeszeck is stellar; clear and uncluttered allowing each image to have its showing.
You most definitely do not need to be a "map person" to love and appreciate this book!
The design and layout by Jane Jeszeck is stellar; clear and uncluttered allowing each image to have its showing.
You most definitely do not need to be a "map person" to love and appreciate this book!
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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16 Oct 2009
By Stephen F. Roth
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Format:Hardcover
I find myself looking through this book again and again, always finding new things. The choice of artworks is spectacular, the production values are gorgeous, and the commentary and essays are interesting, illuminating, and fun to read. I can't even imagine the amount of work that went into putting this book together (look inside). I'm just delighted that she did all that work so we can enjoy it.
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The Map As Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
This book provides an excellent overview of artists who have explored cartography. The introduction discusses the development of this field and considers the theoretical implications of this. There is a strong leaning towards more political pieces in this book.Really good book though!
This book provides an excellent overview of artists who have explored cartography. The introduction discusses the development of this field and considers the theoretical implications of this. There is a strong leaning towards more political pieces in this book.Really good book though!
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