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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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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
'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.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Harmon's new book is a visual and literary feast!
15 Oct 2009
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
Glorious Stuff
16 Oct 2009
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.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
A gorgeous book for map and art lovers
10 Dec 2009
Format:Hardcover
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
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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