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Earth-Mapping - Artists Reshaping Landscape (Hardcover, First Trade Pap)
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Earth-Mapping - Artists Reshaping Landscape (Hardcover, First Trade Pap)
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Dutch world maps of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with
their decorative pictures and elaborate typography, stand in sharp
contrast to the wholly practical maps of today, which emphasize
precise detail and consistent scale. Art, since the Impressionist
period, has seemingly moved in the opposite direction, toward a
less realistic interpretation of the world around us. Edward S.
Casey demonstrates that the disciplines of mapping and painting,
long thought to have diverged, are again intersecting.
Earth-Mapping describes the ways in which artists of the last half
century have incorporated ingenious mapping techniques into their
art works. Beginning with a reassessment of the pioneering earth
art of Robert Smithson in the 1960s and 1970s, Casey follows
Smithson's legacy in the works of Sandy Gellis, Margot McLean, and
Michelle Stuart. He also explores the visions of the earth found in
the abstract paintings of Richard Diebenkorn, Jasper Johns, Willem
de Kooning, Eve Ingalls, and Dan Rice. Focusing on forms of mapping
that depart radically from conventional cartography - particularly
"mapping with/in," being with or in a place, and "mapping out,"
communicating that experience of connection with others Casey -
shows how earth art and abstract painting respectively reshape our
landscape and our view of it, drawing us in from our bird's-eye
view of the grid of highways and roads. In these works, we come to
see the earth as it is sensed, remembered, and reshaped by artists
as they explore the effect of the landscape on humans and the human
effect on the landscape, and as they demand a response to the
changing world around us.
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