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Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism
Experimental Geography Radical Approaches to Landscape Cartography and Urbanism
Author: Nato Thompson, Independent Curators International
A photo of a secret CIA prison. A map designed to help visitors reach Malibu?s notoriously inaccessible public beaches. Guidebooks to factories, prisons, and power plants in upstate New York. An artificial reef fabricated from 500 tons of industrial waste. These are some of the more than one hundred projects represented in Experimental Geogra...  more », a groundbreaking

collection of visual research and mapmaking from the past ten years.

Experimental Geography explores the distinctions between geographical study and artistic experience of the earth, as well as the juncture where the two realms collide (and possibly make a new field altogether). This lavishly illustrated book features more than a dozen maps; artwork by Francis Alÿs, Alex Villar, and Yin Xiuzhen; and recent projects by The Center for Land Use Interpretation, the Raqs Media Collective, and the Center for Urban Pedagogy.

The collection is framed by essays by bestselling author Trevor Paglen, Jeffrey Kastner, and editor Nato Thompson.
ISBN-13: 9780091636586
ISBN-10: 0091636582
Publication Date: 1/13/2009
Pages: 168
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Publisher: Melville House
Book Type: Paperback
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