Cartography art

This week in Art Speak, we look at one of the oldest and most important disciplines in the world, and how it has been appropriated and reinterpreted by artists: cartography, or the art of map-making.

In 1973, the Israeli artist Michael Druks created an unconventional self-portrait.

We obviously think all our maps are works of art. The artistry involved can take years and it’s no wonder people hang them on their walls. Yes, they are practical and useful, but they are also beau…

Normal people don’t have favorite cartographers, but I think many geographers do. I’ve simply fallen in love with the maps of Erwin Raisz. How? It’s not a name you hear too oft…

John Richardson Auldjo, ‘A Map of Vesuvius’, 1833. This map indicates the various routes of lava flows traced during Vesuvius’s eruptions from 1631. Palo, the larger cone, is marked with every lava flow (coloured red, brown, and green). Monte Somma is depicted slightly to the left of Palo and has only one (perhaps two) lava flows. Walking trails and cities, along with landmarks, are depicted in the piece. In the bottom left is a key indicating when each lava flow occurred…

Making Art from maps Mate' Cartography Art Print

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Map of New York City, Showing the Distribution of the Principal Nationalities by Sanitary Districts published in Harper’s Weekly (January 5, 1895, pp. 60–61) using 1890 U.S. Census data. This…

Handstitched Worlds: The Cartography of Quilts is an invitation to read quilts as maps, tracing the paths of individual stories and experiences that illuminate larger historic events and cultural trends. The exhibition brings together a collection of quilts that represents a range of materials, motifs, and techniques.

A specific interest in migration patterns developed alongside a general suspicion of statistical knowledge and the way subjective perceptions of our world can end up imposing one “reality” on impossibly diverse alternative truths. This natural tendency t...

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