Cultural cartography: Maps and mapping in cultural geography

Annales de Geographie

Volumn 117, Issue 660-661, 2008, Pages 159-178

  Cosgrove, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartography; Cultural geography; History of cartography; Land art; Map; Map art; Mapping; Site specific art

Indexed keywords

ART; CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; MAPPING METHOD;

EID: 47249087438     PISSN: 00034010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/ag.660.0159     Document Type: Article

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2. On the professionalization of cartography as a scientific and academic practice and its specifically 20th century characteristics, see Denis Wood, "Cartography is dead (thank God)", Cartographic Perspectives, 45, 2003, p. 4-7.
3. On the cultural and historical roles of mensuration in relating to geography and place, see Giorgio Mangani, Cartografia morale: geografia, persuasions, identità, Modena, Franco Cosimo Panini, 2006.
4. Denis Cosgrove, "Maps, Mapping, Modernity: Art and cartography in the twentieth century", Imago Mundi, 57(1), 2005, p. 35-54.
5. The term "iconotext" refers to representations that incorporate both text and graphic images (for example comic books, cartoons and many virtual hypertexts). The map is one of the oldest examples of the form.
6. See the discussion in Denis Cosgrove and Veronica della Dora, "Mapping global warfare: Los Angeles, the Pacific, and Charles Owens's pictorial cartography", Annals, Association of American Geographers, 95(2), 2005, p. 373-390; and
7. John Pickles, "Texts, hermeneutics and propaganda maps", in T.J. Barnes and J.S. Duncan (eds.), Writing worlds: discourse, text and metaphor in the representation of landscape, London and New York, Routledge, 1992.
8. D. Wood, "Cartography is dead", 4
9. see also John Pickles, A history of spaces: cartographic reason, mapping and the geocoded world, London, Routledge, 2004.
10. J. Brian Harley, The new nature of maps, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins UP, 2001, quotation on 35.
11. The most comprehensive discussion of Harley's ideas, their origin and evolution is Matthew H. Edney, "The origins and development of J.B. Harley's cartographic theories", Cartographica, Monograph 54, 2005
12. Edney's comments on Harley's theoretical confusions are on 107. A detailed critique of Harley's use of French theorists is to be found in Barbara Belyea, "Images of Power: Derrida, Foucault, Harley", Cartographica, 29, 2 1992, p. 1-9.
13. The essays are collected in The new nature of maps. Harley's work for the American bi-centennial exhibition of cartography and discovery revealed to him the extent of pre-Columbian indigenous geographical knowledge present but silenced in the maps produced by European "discoverers".
14. I discuss this evolution of thought in Anglophone human geography in "Epistemology, geography and cartography: Matthew Edney on Brian Harley's cartographic theories", Annals, Association of American Geographers, 97 (1), 2007, p. 202-209.
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20. Juergen Schulz, La cartografia tra scienza e arte: carte e cartografia nei Rinascimento Italiana, Modena, Panini, 1990
21. Denis Cosgrove, The palladian landscape: Geographical change and its cultural representations in sixteenth-century Italy, State College, Penn State University Press, 1993.
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31. Denil, "Cartographic design", 8.
32. The term "immutable mobile" comes from the writings of Bruno Latour and refers to those material scientific objects (such as printed books and treatises) that allow ideas and information to move physically over space. The printed map as a graphic representation of spatial information is a classic example of the kind of instrument Latour is referring to. Bruno Latour, Science in Action, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
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45. Quoted on p. 4 of Denis Cosgrove, "Introduction", Mappings, p. 1-23. Christian Jacob, L'empire des cartes, Paris, Albin Michel, 1993
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54. Cosgrove, "Epistemology, geography and cartography".
55. John Noble Wilford, The mapmakers, New York, Vintage Books, 2001, p. 417.
56. Peter Jackson's Maps of meaning (London, Hutchinson, 1989) one of the seminal texts of the "new" cultural geography, uses the term "map" entirely metaphorically; cartography is of little significance in the work.
57. Denis Wood, "Catalogue of map artists", Cartographic Perspectives, 52, 2006, p. 61-67.
58. This development was clearly visible in the themes and presentations of the Association of American Geographers sponsored Geography and the Humanities Symposium held at the University of Virginia, June, 2007 [www.aag.org/humanities/index.cfm].
59. Kunstgeographie was an early 20th century German sub-discipline of art history that attempted to relate the artistic achievements of a cultural group to their regional geography. Its intellectual connections with cultural geography of the same period were close, the institutional ones less so. See Thomas da Costa Kaufmann, Towards a geography of art, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2004.
60. James Housefield, "Marcel Duchamp's art and the geography of modern Paris", The Geographical Review, 4 1992, p. 478.
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62. David Pinder, Visions of the city: Utopianism, power and politics in twentieth-century Uurbanism, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, and New York, Routledge, 2005
63. David Pinder, "Subverting cartography: the situationists and maps of the city", Environment and Planning A, 28, 1996, p. 405-427.
64. Peter Wollen, "Mappings. Situationists and/or conceptualists", in Michael Newman and John Bird (eds.), Rewriting Conceptual Art, London, Reaktion, 1999
65. Denis Wood, "Map art", Cartographic Perspectives, 53, Winter 2006, p. 5-14.
66. Guy Debord, quoted in Wollen, "Mappings. Situationists and/or conceptualists", p. 30.
67. Ibid., p. 30.
68. Ibid., p. 32.
69. Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life, Trans. S. Rendall, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988.
70. See Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, Cambridge Mass., MIT Press, 2002.
71. http://www.ikatun.com/evacuateboston/about.
72. The project and its various artistic productions are documented in Nick Barley (ed.), Leaving Tracks: Artranspennine 98 - An international contemporary visual art exhibition recorded, Manchester, August Media, 1999.
73. A number of research projects evaluating the goals and achievements of site specific and local or community art projects are currently being undertaken in British university geography departments (eg Open University, Exeter University).