Mapping Beyond Measure - Art, Cartography, and the Space of Global Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Simon Ferdinand is a lecturer in literary and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He is the coeditor of Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization.   Klappentext Simon Ferdinand is a lecturer in literary and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He is the coeditor of Other Globes: Past and Peripheral Imaginations of Globalization. ¿ Zusammenfassung Mapping Beyond Measure analyzes diverse map-based works of painting, collage, film, walking performance, and digital drawing, made in Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine, the United States, and the former Soviet Union, arguing that together they challenge the dominant modern view of the world as a measurable and malleable geometrical space. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: I Map Therefore I Am Modern1. The Shock of the Whole: Phenomenologies of Global Mapping in Solomon Nikritin’s The Old and the New2. Combined and Uneven Cartography: Maps and Time in Alison Hildreth’s Forthrights and Meanders3. Drawing Like a State: Maps, Modernity, and Warfare in Gert Jan Kocken’s Depictions4. Insular Imaginations: Statehood, Islands, and Globalization in Satomi Matoba’s Utopia5. Cartography at Ground Level: Spectrality and Streets in Jeremy Wood’s My Ghost and Meridians6. Another Chorein: Alternative Ontologies in Peter Greenaway’s A Walk Through HEnvoi: Artists Astride Shifting Mapping ParadigmsNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Simon Ferdinand
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781496212115
• ISBN: 978-1-4962-1211-5
• No. of pages: 318
• Series: Cultural Geographies + Rewriti; Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Zweite Hälfte 20. Jahrhundert (1950 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Kunstformen, Kartographie, Kartierung, Humangeographie