Overview

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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Author:   Edward S. Casey
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780816643332

ISBN 10:   0816643334
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 March 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: Mapping It Out With/In the Earth Part I. Mapping the Earth Outright1.Mapping with Earth Works: Robert Smithson on the Site2. Memorial Mapping of the Land: Materiality in Margot McLean3. Mapping-Down In Space and Time: Sandy Gellis Recording Traces 4. Plotting and Charting the Path: Voyaging to the End of the Earth with Michelle StuartConcluding Reflections Part II. Mapping the Landscape in Paintings5. Getting Oriented to the Earth: Eve Ingalls Bringing Line and Paint To Bear6. Maps and Fields: Jasper Johns and Richard Diebenkorn on Icons and the Land7. Absorptive vs. Cartographic Mapping: Willem de Kooning on Bodies Moving in the Landscape8. Reflecting the General in The Serene Sublimity of Earth: Dan Rice on Biding Time in Place Last Thoughts Epilogue: Wherefore Earth-Mapping?NotesPermissionsIndex

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Edward S. Casey is leading professor in the philosophy department at SUNY-Stony Brook. He is author of numerous books on the importance of place in human lives, including Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World (1993), The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (1997), and Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps (2002).

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