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Over 130 leading lights from different fields artists, architects, writers and designers, geographers, mathematicians, computer pioneers, scientists make sense of exterior and interior worlds through highly personal and imaginative maps and charts. Some have translated scientific data into simplified visual language, while others have condensed vast social, political or natural forms into concise diagrams. Many have reworked existing maps to subvert their original purpose or to present an alternative view of reality. Others play with the maps commitment to truth by plotting invented worlds and charting imaginative flights of fancy. Going further, some offer entirely new kinds of map or even reject the maps claim to bear facts altogether. In the introduction, acclaimed novelist Tom McCarthy reflects on the relationship between maps, literature and knowledge, while Hans Ulrich Obrist closes the book by considering the territory of maps from the perspective of the arts and philosophy.

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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning Geography Cartography, map-making & projections

• Full title: Mapping It Out
• Author: Hans-Ulrich Obrist
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780500239186
• ISBN: 0500239185
• ID: 02346071
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Weight: 1258 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 277 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2014

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