1st Edition

Terra Infirma Geography's Visual Culture

By Irit Rogoff Copyright 2000
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

In an age of 'ethnic cleansing' and forced migration, of contested borders and nations in turmoil, how have issues of place and identity, and of belonging and exclusion, been represented in visual culture? In Terra Infirma , Irit Rogoff examines geography's truth claims and signifying practices, arguing that geography is a language in crisis, unable to represent the immense changes that have... Read more
Foreword Introduction 1.Luggage 2.Mapping 3.Borders 4.Bodies Bibliography and Illustrations

Biography

Irit Rogoff is Chair of Art History and Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, University of London