Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art - Seeing With Maps

List of contents

Table of contents:
Introduction - From critical cartography to cartographic abstraction: rethinking the production of cartographic viewing through contemporary artworks
Chapter One – Reconfiguring the view from nowhere: collage and complicity in Targets by Joyce Kozloff
Chapter Two – The drone’s eye view: networked vision and visibility in works by James Bridle and Trevor Paglen
Chapter Three – Remote viewing, cartographic abstraction and the antipodes: three works by Layla Curtis
Chapter Four – Signification in the soundscape: Bill Fontana’s River Sounding
Chapter Five – Cartographic abstraction: a material modality of thought and experience

About the author

Claire Reddleman received her PhD in cultural studies from Goldsmiths, University of London.

Summary

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" – a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected artworks and theories in each chapter.

Additional text

"Cartographic visions and the Apollo’s eye organized, ordered, quantified, and defined the spaces of the modern world. How do we make sense of a contemporary world in which surveillance cameras, drones, and satellites are no longer strange but are our everyday reality? Claire Reddleman’s inspired book brings together critical cartographic studies with the work of artists whose creations depend on maps, drones, and related tools. This, the resulting book, generates theoretical tools for grappling with uncertain times."
- James Housefield, University of California, Davis

Product details

• Authors: Claire Reddleman, Claire (Research Fellow Reddleman
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367354015
• ISBN: 978-0-367-35401-5
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, ART / History / General, ART / Sculpture & Installation, ART / Art & Politics, ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), PHOTOGRAPHY / History, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Aerial, History of Art, Cartography, map-making & projections, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Cartography, map-making and projections, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, Abstractism