 | Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art: Poetic Cartography Subjects: Arts; Geography; Humanities; Art & Visual Culture; Human Geography; GIS Remote Sensing & Cartography; Philosophy; Contemporary Art; History of Art; Modern Art; Philosophy of Art & Aesthetics; Geographical Thought; Cartography; Aesthetics; Continental Philosophy; Modern Philosophy (16th Century-18th Century); 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. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art theory, aesthetics, and cartography. Simonetta Moro is a visual artist and the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Director, and Associate Professor of Art and Theory at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. |
