Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art

Seeing with Maps
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-71257-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 253 mm x 179 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" – a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected artworks (by contemporary artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Layla Curtis, and Bill Fontana) and theories in each chapter. Reconfiguring the Foucauldian underpinning of critical cartography towards a materialist theory of abstraction, cartographic viewpoints are theorised as concrete abstractions. This research is positioned at the intersection of art theory, critical cartography and materialist philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reddleman, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of contents:

Introduction - From critical cartography to cartographic abstraction: rethinking the production of cartographic viewing through contemporary artworks

Chapter One – Reconfiguring the view from nowhere: collage and complicity in Targets by Joyce Kozloff

Chapter Two – The drone’s eye view: networked vision and visibility in works by James Bridle and Trevor Paglen

Chapter Three – Remote viewing, cartographic abstraction and the antipodes: three works by Layla Curtis

Chapter Four – Signification in the soundscape: Bill Fontana’s River Sounding

Chapter Five – Cartographic abstraction: a material modality of thought and experience

Über Autor(innen)

Claire Reddleman received her PhD in cultural studies from Goldsmiths, University of London.