Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art

<p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history, art theory, aesthetics, and cartography.</p> <p>Introduction. The Question of Mapping <strong>Part 1: </strong><strong>Archaeologies </strong>1. Travelers Without Maps 2. Mapping in the Age of the World Picture <strong>Part 2:</strong> <strong>Topologies </strong>3. Topologies of Difference 4. Carto-aesthetics: Modalities of Art Making 5. Poetic Cartography as Nomadic Mapping Conclusion. After the End of the World Picture Appendix. Mapping in the Time of Global Pandemic</p>