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Mapping it out An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies

SKU: 9780500239186
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  • Author:
    MCCARTHY Tom / OBRIST Hans-Ulrich
  • ISBN:
    9780500239186
  • Publication Date:
    0/06/2014
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    240
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Thames and Hudson
  • Country of Publication:
Mapping it out An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies
Mapping it out An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies

Mapping it out An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies

SKU: 9780500239186
Regular price $65.00
Unit price
per
  • Author:
    MCCARTHY Tom / OBRIST Hans-Ulrich
  • ISBN:
    9780500239186
  • Publication Date:
    0/06/2014
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    240
  • Binding:
    Hardback
  • Publisher:
    Thames and Hudson
  • Country of Publication:

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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.

Featured in the August 2014 Creative Enterprises Newsletter.
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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.

    Featured in the August 2014 Creative Enterprises Newsletter.
    To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

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.

Featured in the August 2014 Creative Enterprises Newsletter.
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