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Artist maps

Cartography with a creative spin. Artist maps. The Map- traditional or….

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Artist maps

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  1. Cartography with a creative spin Artist maps

  2. The Map- traditional or… • they can lead to different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the exterior world. These are the places of artists' maps, that happy combination of information and illusion that flourishes in basement studios and downtown galleries alike..

  3. Maps-functional or not We’ll see some modern artist maps as well as some old maps that have a functional element but are highly creative. Think about how your map will be.

  4. The idea Is this a map with a message?

  5. Dahlia Elsayed The artist says that this was her life in the month of August

  6. Life in Los Angeles This 1971 map plats the ethnicity of the inhabitants, their income and their stress level

  7. Howard Howrowitz-Map of Manhattan 1997 It took him well over a year to compose the poem that makes up this map

  8. Edwin Morgan- “chaffinch” This map of Scotland documents the regional name variants for this bird .

  9. Kathy Pendergrast- “Lost” This map of the US lists only the cities , rivers , lakes and other geographic elements that have the word “lost” in their name.

  10. Paula Scher- detail This artist uses text for meaning as well as a way to create visual interest

  11. Lordy Rodriguez- “South Pole” This map tells us about political influence in an aesthetic way.

  12. Joyce Kozloff She works with appropriated images creating maps that speak to our fears as a society.

  13. Joyce Kozlof- Bodies of Water

  14. Joyce Kozloff

  15. Think about map structure Will it have roads? Will it be topographic? Will it be more traditional or less?

  16. Michael Drucks- “Drucksland”

  17. The road to Success 19th century map

  18. Land of Matrimony 19th century map

  19. Think about the mood Will it be serious, funny, thought provoking….

  20. Adolf Wolfi- “General View of the Island of Neveranger” This 1911 map of an imaginary place was created by a very talented, emotionally disturbed artist.

  21. Hell 19th century map

  22. Axel Grey Chakra map

  23. Originality Think about an alternative media or approach

  24. Katherine Harmon Publisher and map maker

  25. “Aquila” A 19th century map of constellations

  26. Lordy Rodriguez

  27. Think about the presentation Will it fill a rectangle, be cut out, be within a form….

  28. Annette Messager- “mestrophées” French artist Messager drew on her feet and then photographed them.

  29. Nina Katchadourian- “Austria” This artist took a map of austria, cut out the roads and rivers and reformed it into a 3-d shape

  30. 18th century map Vishnu’s foot prints as constellations

  31. Earnest Dudley- “Heart Map” In the late 19thcenturymDudley did a series of different maps that poked fun at relationships

  32. Arthur Merton-”head” 1879-medical map

  33. KunisawaUtagada This 1850 Japanese map locates the digestive system

  34. Alighieri Boetti Working in fabric this contemporary artist stitched the flags into the area of the country

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