World Views

by Silberman, Robert Bruce; Tuan, Yi-Fu; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum

• ISBN13: 9780816636860
• ISBN10: 0816636869
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Frederick R Weisman Art Museum

Summary

While many modern artists have been fascinated by the formal richness, the conceptual foundations, and the social significance of maps, cartographers have long used the techniques of artists to create maps that express much more than how to get from one place to another. World Views is the companion volume to an exhibition at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum that is the first to combine maps, contemporary art that uses map forms and strategies, and commissioned works of art based on the idea of map making.

Densely illustrated with full-color reproductions, World Views shows how maps are a vehicle for examining cultural issues ranging from personal identity to international politics. Maps from around the world and throughout history along with works by artists such as Jasper Johns and Nancy Graves are joined by art created especially for the exhibition.

Although maps are supposedly objective, they incorporate cultural values and political beliefs. Essays by Robert Silberman and eminent geographer Yi-Fu Tuan explore further the complex relationship between

Table of Contents

Director's Foreword	06	(8)
Lyndel King
Curator's Acknowledgments	08	(2)
Robert Silberman
Maps and Art: Identity and Utopia	10	(16)
Yi-Fu Tuan
Maps and Art: The Pleasures and Power of Worldviews	26	(30)
Robert Silberman
The Globe in a Different Topographical System	56	(6)
Ilya Kabakov
Knowmad	62	(6)
Knowmad Confederacy
Spot 083-264: Kosovo, June 3, 1999	68	(8)
Laura Kurgan
Works in the Exhibition	76	(3)
Selected Bibliography	79