The places we have known do not belong only to the little world of space on which we map them for our own convenience. None of them was ever more than a thin slice, held between the contiguous impressions that composed our life at that time; the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fugitive, alas, as the years. - Marcel Proust

Saturday, March 13, 2010

typewriter and maps

typewriter
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The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography

By Katharine Harmon


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Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form. Or they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the places of artists' maps, that happy combination of information and illusion that flourishes in basement studios and downtown galleries alike. It is little surprise that, in an era of globalized politics, culture, and ecology, contemporary artists are drawn to maps to express their visions. Using paint, salt, souvenir tea towels, or their own bodies, map artists explore a world free of geographical constraints. "

but i appreciate geographical constraints. constraints is not a pleasing word.

Google book preview:
http://books.google.com/books?id=iJpT_EuL7gAC&lpg=PP1&client=firefox-a&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

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