Maps & Mapping

This list of sources ranges from the strictly geographic to interpretive & conceptual mapping

Art & cartography: six historical essays
David Woodward, editor. University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Art GA108 A78 1987
...From mental matrix to Mappamundi to Christian Empire : the heritage of Ptolemaic cartography in the Renaissance/The mapping impulse in Dutch art/ Maps as metaphors : mural map cycles of the Italian Renaissance/Color in cartography : a historical survey/-- The sources and development of cartographic
ornamentation in the Netherlands /The manuscript, engraved, and typographic traditions of map lettering/

Atlas of Emotion: journeys in art, architecture, and film
Giuliana Bruno. New York : Verso, 2002.
Art NX440 .B78 2002
"With forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography, and film, the Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavour to map a cultural history of the visual arts. Bruno insists throughout on the inseparability of seeing and travelling. In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Messager; the filmmaking of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni; the architecture of cinema & its precursors....the curiosity cabinet, georama, garden design, view painting, the arts of memory and mapping"

Cross Sections
Catherine Wagner. San Jose Museum of Art, 2001.
Art TR647 .W334 2001
"In Cross Sections, Wagner has incorporated state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology and medical research findings to produce beautiful and provocative black-and-white images that examine life from the inside out."

Earth-Mapping: artists reshaping landscape
Edward S.Casey. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Art GA203 .C37 2005
"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 past 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."

Hitting the road : the art of the American road map
Douglas A. Yorke & John Margolies ;
design by Eric Baker Design Associates. Chronicle Books, 1996.
Art GA405.5 Y67 1996
"Hitting the Road offers a striking collection of illustrations of over 200 road maps, together with a fascinating discussion of the popular culture they reveal. From the early touring maps of 1912, featuring covers ablaze with a sense of motoring adventure, to the Art Deco-inspired graphics of the thirties and the family-oriented images of the fifties and sixties, the examples in Hitting the Road are themselves maps of the recreational twists and turns of the public they sought to guide."

How latitude becomes form : art in a global age
Editor, Michelle Piranio. Walker Art Center; c2003.
Art N72.G55 H68 2003
Globalization from the rear "Would you care to dance, Mr. Malevich?"/Phillippe Vergne -- The local tango and the global dance / Vasif Korun, Cuauhtémoc Medina -- Initiatives, alternatives: notes in a temporary and raw state / Hou Hanru -- Translocations / Steve Dietz ... [et al.] -- Musings on globalism and institutional change / Kathy Halbreich, Vishakha N. Desai -- Interactions/intersections: cultural globalism and educational practice / Sarah Schultz ... [et al.] -- Content, context, and cultural commitment: curating the performing arts / Philip Biethe, Baraka Sele -- Revolt, dysfunction, dementia: toward the body of "empire" / Otori Hidenaga -- "Le cinéma est un language universel" / Cis Bierinckx, Phillippe Verne -- Learning and dislearning to be globa; questions at 44° 53' N, 93° 13' W and 22° 54' 24" S, 43° 10' 21" W / Paulo Herkenhoff -- Just how did latitudes become forms? / Philippe Vergne

Information arts : intersections of art, science, and technology
Stephen Wilson. Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2002.
Art N72.S3 W55 2002
An introduction to the work and ideas of artists who use--and influence--science and technology."

Reinventing the wheel
Jessica Helfand. Princeton Architectural Press ; Falls Village, Conn. :
Winterhouse Editions, 2002.
Art N7431.5 .H45 2002
This book explores the vovelle or planisphere, a moveable, circular device used in celestial mapping. Rotation: a brief history of the wheel/Iteration: circular ephemera & the new century /Speculation: modern revolutions/

Representing Place
Edward S. Casey. Published Minneapolis ; London : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
ND1340 .C38 2002
Casey's discussion ranges widely from Northern Sung landscape painting to nineteenth-century American and British landscape painting and photography, from prehistoric petroglyphs and medieval portolan charts to seventeenth-century Dutch cartography and land survey maps of the American frontier. From these culturally and historically diverse forays a theory of representation emerges. Casey proposes that the representation of place in visual works be judged in terms not of resemblance, but of reconnecting with an earth and world that are not the mere content of mind or language-a reconnection that calls for the embodiment and implacement of the human subject.

Topophilia : a study of environmental perception, attitudes, and values
Yi-Fu Tuan. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1974.
Art GF41 T82 1974
Common traits in perception : the senses/Common psychological structures and responses/Ethnocentrism, symmetry, and space/Personal worlds : individual differences and preferences/Culture, experience, and environmental attitudes/Environment, perception, and world views/Topophilia and environment/Environment and topophilia /From cosmos to landscape/The ideal city and symbols of transcendence /Physical setting and urban life styles /American cities : symbolism, imagery, perception /Suburbs and new towns : the search for environment/

Trading territories: mapping the early modern world
Jerry Brotton. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Olin GA201 B75 1997
"...documents the dramatic changes in the nature of geographical representation which took place during the sixteenth century, and suggests that they tell us a great deal about the transformation of European culture at the end of the early modern era. He examines the age's fascination with maps, charts, and globes as both texts and artifacts that provided their owners with a promise of gain, be it intellectual, political, or financial."

Universal experience: art, life, and the tourist's eye
Curated by Francesco Bonami, with Julie Rodrigues Widholm and Tricia Van Eck.
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005.
Art N72.T68 U55 2005
"Tourism, the largest industry in the world, is a significant force in contemporary society, with far-reaching economic, cultural, and geopolitical importance. Rather than seeking to represent tourism or travel itself, Universal Experience: Art, Life, and the Tourist's Eye considers art, history, and the social construction of places, spaces, and identities from the heightened perception of the tourist."

Unplugged : art as the scene of global conflicts
Gerfried Stocker & Christine Schöpf, editors.
Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2002.
Art N72.G55 U57 2002
"Unplugged focuses on the blind spots of globalization, those barriers of a mental and geographic nature that make getting connected to and taking part in this process of global networking impossible, illicit or even unwelcome. Selected texts and exemplary projects will raise issues and discuss questions dealing with art as the scene of global conflicts and the political aspects of art."

The World according to the newest and most exact observations : mapping art + science
Susan Bender [et al...] Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery at Skidmore College ;
New York: DAP, 2001.
Art N72.S3 W67 2001
" .....an exhibition that focuses on the human body and political geography of northeastern North America through maps, atlases, and scientific models from the 16th century to the present"

World views : maps & art 11 September 1999-2 January 2000
Robert Silberman in collaboration with Patricia McDonnell ; essay by Yi-Fu Tuan.
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, 1999.
Art N8222.M375 S54 1999
...Maps and art : identity and utopia / Yi-Fu Tuan -- Maps and art : the pleasures and power of worldviews / Robert Silberman -- The globe in a different topographical system / Ilya Kabakov -- KNOWMAD / KNOWMAD Confederacy -- Spot 083-264 : Kosova, June 3, 1999 / Laura Kurgan/


Links to related subject headings in the catalog :

atlases - historical

cartography

cartography - history

early maps

maps - historical

* browse a list of atlases ~ keyword search using atlas* and pictorial

Other Resources of Interest:

Center for Land Use Interpretation
CLUI is a research organization involved in exploring, examining, and understanding land and landscape issues. The Center employs a variety of methods to pursue its mission - engaging in research, classification, extrapolation, and exhibition.

David Rumsey Map Collection
The Rumsey collection was started nearly 20 years ago. Its primary focus is on cartography of the Americas from the 18th & 19th centuries but among the collection maps of the world, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania are also found. The collection contains over 8,800 items which include: atlases, globes, school geographies, books, maritime charts, & a variety of separate maps, including pocket, wall, children's maps & manuscript.
When accessed through the java client, jpg files can be downloaded.

example: keyword search, "pictorial st louis" to view Richard Compton's heavily illustrated 1876 publication.

example: keyword search, "terrestrial globe" to view a collection of 19th century globes.

Oxford English Dictionary aka the OED, 2nd edition, 1989 - the definitive English language dictionary; use it to find historical references to a word as well as its etymology.

Examples:

map, n.
map, v.
or
bench-mark


Oxford Reference Online ~ World Maps - over 475 maps including locator, physical & political maps for each country

Visual English Dictionary ~ Illustrations of cartographic concepts

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
The TGN is a structured vocabulary containing more than one million names, geographic coordinates and historical refererences about places. It includes all continents & nations of the modern political world, as well as historical place names. It describes physical features & administrative entities, such as cities and nations. The emphasis in TGN is on places that are important for art and architecture.

example search: Constantinople


Maps of Missouri
The St. Louis Public Library presents "Maps of Missouri" illustrating the many ways maps convey times, places, and events. Approximately 100 maps of Missouri cities, towns, counties and the state are included in the exhibit. Most of the maps were created between the beginning of the nineteenth through the early twentieth century and appeared as single sheet maps or sections of atlases. Maps for this exhibit were chosen to represent various types of maps, subjects, time periods, and the aesthetic appearance of the maps themselves.