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The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography - Community Reviews back

by Katharine Harmon
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Kris Reads
Kris Reads rated it 12 years ago
"Geographers submit to a tacit agreement to obey certain mapping conventions, to speak in a malleable but standardized visual language. Artists are free to disobey these rules. They can mock preoccupation with ownership, spheres of influence, and conventional cultural orientations and beliefs." (p. ...
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afwaasdf rated it 12 years ago
"Geographers submit to a tacit agreement to obey certain mapping conventions, to speak in a malleable but standardized visual language. Artists are free to disobey these rules. They can mock preoccupation with ownership, spheres of influence, and conventional cultural orientations and beliefs." (p. ...
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