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Mapmaking as Image-making: The Case of East Central Europe

October 20 2020

"The intermediality of the cartographic language, utilising both text and image, makes it particularly open to the interdisciplinary inquiry from social sciences and humanities. One of the less explored avenues of further research is offered by visual studies. If the map precedes the territory, is it the image that precedes the map?"
Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius's essay compares maps of Eastern Europe, beginning from the map of Slavic lands by Josef Pavol Šafárik of 1842, and it claims that cartographic imagery has played a significant role in the legitimisation of the region’s collective identity. It argues that the adoption the map as a tool of art history, in order to spatialise and quantify the understanding of art, cannot bypass the postmodern critique of the map.
The text was first published in the Book The New Dictionary of Old Ideas (2020).


 

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https://blokmagazine.com/mapmaking-as-image-making-the-case-of-east-central-europe/

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