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Art and cartography : six historical essays / edited by David Woodward.
LIBRA GA108 .A78 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography
- Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., lectures in the history of cartography.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cartography.
- Maps--Illustrations.
- Maps.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- Illustrated with 34 color plates and 193 halftones, Art and Cartography illuminates the complex intermingling of art and science that is found in the map and in mapmaking throughout history and suggests new perspectives on many methodological and philosophical questions about the relation between art and science, between fine and applied art. Students of map history and art history, map collectors, cartographers will all welcome this book as a necessary benchmark in writing on the rapprochement of art and cartography.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0226907228
- OCLC:
- 13332079
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