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Dear all,
-Apologies for any cross-posting-
My new book ‘Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with maps’ is out now from Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies.
It’s about different forms of cartographic viewing – including the ‘cartographic view from nowhere’, drone viewing, the Apollonian view (in which the earth is ‘seen’ from space), remote cartographic viewing (with particular reference to the antipodes) and an ‘immersive’ form of viewing cartographically from within an art installation. These ways of seeing with maps are explored with close reference to a series of contemporary artworks, by Joyce Kozloff, James Bridle, Trevor Paglen, Layla Curtis and Bill Fontana. The book is a development of my phd thesis, and so is most likely to be of interest for postgraduate students and researchers – but I think the material about the artworks will also be of interest for art students, artists and art-world professionals, and the theoretical ideas about cartographic abstraction will be of interest for people who work on real abstraction and Marxian-informed ways of thinking about art and visual culture.
Here is the official blurb:
In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation ‘cartographic abstraction’ – a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected artworks (by contemporary artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Layla Curtis, and Bill Fontana) and theories in each chapter. Reconfiguring the Foucauldian underpinning of critical cartography towards a materialist theory of abstraction, cartographic viewpoints are theorised as concrete abstractions. This research is positioned at the intersection of art theory, critical cartography and materialist philosophy.
Here are the chapter headings:
Intro – From Critical Cartography to Cartographic Abstraction: Rethinking the Production of Cartographic Viewing Through Contemporary Artworks
1. Reconfiguring the View From Nowhere: Collage and Complicity in ‘Targets’ by Joyce Kozloff
2. The Drone’s Eye View: Networked Vision and Visibility in Works by James Bridle and Trevor Paglen
3. Remote Viewing, Cartographic Abstraction and the Antipodes: Three Works by Layla Curtis
4. Signification in the Soundscape: Bill Fontana’s ‘River Sounding’
5. Cartographic Abstraction: A Material Modality of Thought and Experience
Availability
‘Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art: Seeing with maps’ is available for just under £100 from Abe Books here: https://www.abebooks.co.
If you have access to a university library, it would be wonderful if you would request they buy a copy. A paperback edition will also come out around June 2019. Please do get in touch if you have any queries about how to access the book.
Best wishes,
Claire
(Dr Claire Reddleman)