Earth-mapping : artists reshaping landscape / Edward S. Casey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casey, Edward S., 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cartography--History.

Cartography.

Artists as cartographers.

Cartography--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 242 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press ; Bristol : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Edward Casey describes the ways in which artists of the past half century have incorporated ingenious mapping techniques into their artworks. Casey follows Robert 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.

Contents:

Prologue : mapping it out with/in the Earth

Mapping with earth works : Robert Smithson on the site

Memorial mapping of the land : materiality in work of Margot McLean

Mapping down in space and time : Sandy Gellis collecting traces

Plotting and charting the path : voyaging to the ends of the Earth with Michelle Stuart

Concluding reflections to part I

Getting oriented to the Earth : Eve Ingalls bringing line and paint to bear

Maps and fields : Jasper Johns and Richard Diebenkorn on icons and the land

Absorptive versus cartographic mapping : Willem de Kooning on bodies moving in the landscape

Locating the general in the Earth itself : Dan Rice on biding time in place

Last thoughts on part II

Epilogue : wherefore Earth-mapping?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-9585-7

OCLC:

476095694