1st Edition

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art Poetic Cartography

By Simonetta Moro Copyright 2021
216 Pages 11 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 11 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 11 Color & 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping, although indebted to the "spatial turn" of poststructuralist philosophy, is reconstructed as hermeneutics, while... Read more

Introduction. The Question of Mapping Part 1: Archaeologies 1. Travelers Without Maps 2. Mapping in the Age of the World Picture Part 2: Topologies 3. Topologies of Difference 4. Carto-aesthetics: Modalities of Art Making 5. Poetic Cartography as Nomadic Mapping Conclusion. After the End of the World Picture Appendix. Mapping in the Time of Global Pandemic

Biography

    Simonetta Moro is a visual artist and the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Director, and Associate Professor of Art and Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts.