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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> There has always been art in cartography. Maps by definition are utilitarian of course; they bear implicit promises of routes into and out of the unknown. Yet the language of maps as developed over time is a beautiful one filled with artistic potential Cartographers have long known that deploying artistic skills and techniques can enhance a map’s effect and have to varying degrees used visual creativity to make their maps more compelling. Now the relationship between maps and art has swung around; artists are using maps to further their artistic purposes. In postmodern times with all truths suspect artists have found in cartography a rich vein of concepts and imagery to mine. Cartographic rules give artists whole networks of assumptions to exploit and upend. In the last fifty years artists have produced much inspiring material for those who appre ciate what art can tell us about maps and how maps enhance art Since the 1960s there has been an exponential increase in artists working with maps and that abundant output has in turn inspired this book. Like the growth of a small settlement into a metropolis carto graphic motifs have spread across the artistic landscape. (MP)