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

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ISBN 10: 0500239185 ISBN 13: 9780500239186

Casa editrice: Thames & Hudson, 2014

Riassunto

Maps have always been at the heart of human knowledge. Whether they chart a newly discovered land or lay out a complicated process, maps serve to improve our understanding of what surrounds us. Maps make the complex simple, and reveal the complexity behind the apparently simple. Mapping It Out invites artists, architects, writers, and designers, geographers, mathematicians, computer pioneers, scientists, and others from a host of fields to create a personal map of their own, in whatever form and showing whatever terrain they choose, whether real-world or imaginary.Over 130 contributors’ ideas are represented, including Yoko Ono, Louise Bourgeois, Damien Hirst, David Adjaye, Ed Ruscha, Alexander Kluge, and many more. Some contributors have translated scientific data into simplified visual language, while others have condensed vast social, political, or natural forms into concise diagrams. There are reworked existing maps, alternate views of reality, charted imaginary flights of fancy, and the occasional rejection of a traditional map altogether.

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Recensione:

A dizzying catalogue of images that interrogate the role of maps in the 21st century. --New Statesman

Thought-provoking abstractions from artists, designers, scientists and more ... with a beautiful design by Jonathan Barnbrook, it will be a long, long while before this book starts to feel old. --Coolhunting.com

Brings artistry and imagination back to mapmaking ... visually arresting. --FastCompany.com

Stunning ... engrossing and beautiful. --It's Nice That.com

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• Editore: Thames & Hudson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0500239185
• ISBN 13: 9780500239186
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 239
• Redattore: Obrist Hans Ulrich