Art Maps and Cities

Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces

Gloria Lanci

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Palgrave Macmillan
27 November 2023

History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Cultural studies; Cartography, map-making & projections

This book presents an original study on how contemporary artists are exploring urban spaces through mapping. Despite a long history of representations of cities in maps, and the relationships that can be envisaged between art maps and cities in the contemporary world, little research is dedicated to investigating how artists intervene in the realm of urban cartography. The research examines a century-old history of art maps and draws on academic debates challenging traditional notions of maps as scientific artefacts produced through accurate measurement and surveying. The potential of art maps to construct personal narratives, through contestation, embodiment and play, is analysed in the city context, where spaces are shaped by urban planning and design, political ideologies and socio-economic forces. Adopting an exploratory and interpretative research approach that investigates the confluence of theories originated in different domains, this book conducts the reader todiscover what artistic practices can bring into a more creative, while inquisitive, understanding of cities. A series of semi-structured interviews with visual artists, enquiring how they apprehend, process and re-create urban spaces in artworks, explores cartographic process and methods in visual art practices in the twenty first century, which incorporates digital technologies and critical thinking.

By: Gloria Lanci
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2022 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 293g
ISBN: 9783031133084
ISBN 10: 3031133080
Pages: 209
Publication Date: 27 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gloria Lanci, an architect and urbanist, is a lecturer in Applied Geography at the University of the West of England, UK. Her multidisciplinary research interests include cultural tourism, urban regeneration, urban heritage, geographical information systems and cartography.

Reviews for Art Maps and Cities: Contemporary Artists Explore Urban Spaces

“Beginning with a terse and meticulously documented study of cartographic theory, Art Maps and Cities aims toward creative and countercultural mappings on the part of artists and polemical historians in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. … A compelling and exciting voyage through what urban maps have done and are now doing, the monograph can be read as an adventure, a map that discovers itself as it goes.” (Tom Conley, Imago Mundi, Vol. 76 (1), 2024)