Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography
Simonetta Moro, "Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography "
English | ISBN: 103205204X | 2023 | 204 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 29 MB
English | ISBN: 103205204X | 2023 | 204 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 29 MB
Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography.
The problem of mapping, although indebted to the "spatial turn" of poststructuralist philosophy, is reconstructed as hermeneutics, while exposing the nexus between topology, space-time, and memory. The book posits that the emergence of "mapping" as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition.
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