| The Power of Maps Revised Edition Contributor(s): Wood, Denis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0898624932 ISBN-13: 9780898624939 Publisher: Guilford Publications OUR PRICE: $29.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1992 Annotation: This volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting rights, taxation districts and enterprise zones--they embody and project the interests of their creators. Sampling the scope of maps available today, illustrations include Peter Gould's AIDS map, Tom Van Sant's map of the earth, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and a child's drawing of the world. THE POWER OF MAPS was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Maps & Road Atlases (see Also Reference - Atlases, Gazetteers & Maps) - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Social Science | Human Geography |
| Dewey: 526 |
| LCCN: 92023443 |
| Series: Mappings: Society/Theory/Space |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.80 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume ventures into terrain where even the most sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference objects, but rather instruments of communication, persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting rights, taxation districts and enterprise zones--they embody and project the interests of their creators. Sampling the scope of maps available today, illustrations include Peter Gould's AIDS map, Tom Van Sant's map of the earth, U.S. Geological Survey maps, and a child's drawing of the world. THE POWER OF MAPS was published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design. |