You Are Here by Katharine Harmon

You Are Here by Katharine Harmon

Mapmaking fulfills one of our most ancient and deepseated desires: understanding the world around us and our place in it. But maps need not just show continents and oceans: there are maps to heaven and hell; to happiness and despair; maps of moods, matrimony, and mythological places. There are maps to popular culture, from Gulliver's Island to Gilligan's Island. There are speculative maps of the world before it was known, and maps to secret places known only to the mapmaker. Artists' maps show another kind of uncharted realm: the imagination. What all these maps have in common is their creators' willingness to venture beyond the boundaries of geography or convention. You Are Here is a wide-ranging collection of such superbly inventive maps. These are charts of places you're not expected to find, but a voyage you take in your mind: an exploration of the ideal country estate from a dog's perspective; a guide to buried treasure on Skeleton Island; a trip down the road to success; or the world as imagined by an inmate of a mental institution. With over 100 maps from artists, cartographers, and explorers, You are Here gives the reader a breath-taking view of worlds, both real and imaginary.

You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination author Katharine Harmon provides a show-stopping hardcover book with map-related artistic concepts. The Map as Art contains 250 pieces by well-known artists, such as Joyce Kozloff, Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafer Eliasson, Paul Scher, William Kentridge, Vik Muniz, Guillermo Kuitca, Joseph Cornell, and Maya Lin, as well as many more lesser-known artists who use maps as inspiration for their work. All of them are scouts, charting the spiritual highways and byways as well as the terrain of the soul.

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ISBN 13	9781568984308
ISBN 10	1568984308
Title	You Are Here
Author	Katharine Harmon
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Princeton Architectural Press
Year published	2003-10-15
Number of pages	192
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