Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies - Hardcover

 
9780500239186: Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0500239185 ISBN 13: 9780500239186
Verlag: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Over 130 leading lights from different fields – artists, architects, writers and designers, geographers, mathematicians, computer pioneers, scientists – make sense of exterior and interior worlds through highly personal and imaginative maps and charts. Some have translated scientific data into simplified visual language, while others have condensed vast social, political or natural forms into concise diagrams. Many have reworked existing maps to subvert their original purpose or to present an alternative view of reality. Others play with the map’s commitment to truth by plotting invented worlds and charting imaginative flights of fancy. Going further, some offer entirely new kinds of map – or even reject the map’s claim to bear facts altogether. In the introduction, acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy reflects on the relationship between maps, literature and knowledge, while Hans Ulrich Obrist closes the book by considering the territory of maps from the perspective of the arts and philosophy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Hans Ulrich Obrist is an art curator, critic and historian. He is the Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

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Over 130 leading lights from different fields artists, architects, writers and designers, geographers, mathematicians, computer pioneers, scientists make sense of exterior and interior worlds through highly personal and imaginative maps and charts. Some have translated scientific data into simplified visual language, while others have condensed vast social, political or natural forms into concise diagrams. Many have reworked existing maps to subvert their original purpose or to present an alternative view of reality. Others play with the maps commitment to truth by plotting invented worlds and charting imaginative flights of fancy. Going further, some offer entirely new kinds of map or even reject the maps claim to bear facts altogether. In the introduction, acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy reflects on the relationship between maps, literature and knowledge, while Hans Ulrich Obrist closes the book by considering the territory of maps from the perspective of the arts and philosophy.

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Verlag
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500239185
ISBN 13 
9780500239186
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
240
Herausgeber
Obrist Hans Ulrich
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