Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art through the concept of poetic cartography. The problem of mapping although indebted to the spatial turn of poststructuralist philosophy is reconstructed as hermeneutics while exposing the nexus between topology space-time and memory. The book posits that the emergence of mapping as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition. This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history art theory aesthetics and cartography. |Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art Poetic Cartography | Visual Studies
