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You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps Of the Imagination (Paperback)

by Katharine (Ed) Harmon (Author)

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press; 1 edition (Nov 1 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1568984308
ISBN-13: 978-1568984308
Product Dimensions: 24.9 x 18 x 2.3 cm
Shipping Weight: 636 g

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Into this seemingly lighthearted 7" 10" look into people's love affairs with maps and mapmaking, Harmon packs some serious intellectual concepts about the human impulse to locate itself in the cosmos. Under the loose and expandable categories of "Personal Geography," "At Home in the World" and "Realms of Fantasy," Harmon presents 50 four-color and 50 b&w cartographical illustrations, including Professor Eugene Turner's smily and frowny faces placed on a map of Los Angeles convey data on the unemployment rates, urban stress and racial composition of individual neighborhoods, putting substantive research in a down-to-earth guise. Ellsworth Kelly's "Fields on a Map (Meschers, Gironde)" pulls an abstract pastoral out of a real place, while Kisaburo Ohara makes an octopus-like Russia seem vividly frightening in "A Humorous Diplomatic Atlas of Europe and Asia." Kim Dingle's collection of variously erroneous maps of the United States drawn by American students are equally thought provoking. Harmon has cannily selected a variety of essays, humorous, personal, analytical: e.g., Bridget Booher's chronological "map" of every injustice done to her body, Roger Sheffer's absorbing analysis of the little maps drawn in the registers of shelters along the Appalachian Trail, and Hugh Brogan's professorial elegy for the fantastical maps that used to be printed in Arthur Ransome's children's books. Purists may dislike the way that illustrations of various maps are not linked directly to the texts; others may find it refreshing, much like the kind of map that makes you expect a new and alluring surprise around every corner. Harmon's intricate and thoughtful selections do indeed prove her point that mapmaking is as diverse and extraordinary a human act as any other.
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Mapmaking helps fulfill a desire to understand the natural world, but maps can show more than just the continents and oceans. There are maps to heaven and hell or to happiness and despair, while artists' maps chart the imagination. In this wide-ranging collection of superbly inventive maps the reader is invited to take a voyage of the mind, using maps that venture beyond the boundaries of geography or convention. Explore the ideal country estate-from a dog's perspective. Take a trip down the road to success. Or look at the world as imagined by an inmate of a mental institution. With over 100 maps from artists, cartographers and explorers, You Are Here is a breath-taking view of real and imaginary worlds.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How wonderful!, Sep 1 2007

By	Russell Collier "TheGeek" (Smithers, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was introduced to this book by a fellow student in a drawing class. Imagine my delight! As a map-maker myself, I have often looked for ideas to make my maps just that bit more interesting.

This book really stoked my creative fires - I loved it!

I wholeheartedly recommend this book to everyone.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative and Thought-Provoking, Jan 7 2004

By	JAL "jlwest" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

Trying to describe this book is difficult, so I'll just start by saying it is WONDERFUL. It's imaginative, thought-provoking, whimsical, intense and unique; if you're hesitating about buying it, be assured that it is well worth the money. On a practical level, it's just packed with fascinating drawings, a full color "map" on most pages, and many double-page color spreads. They range from ancient carvings to wild modern art by people like Adolf Wolfli to computer-generated maps of air routes across Great Britain (which look a bit like Jackson Pollock paintings!) Each map is worth an afternoon of contemplation: maps of heaven and hell, maps of Gilligan's Island, maps of the world seen through the eyes of a New Yorker (or a Californian), two maps (one for a woman's heart, one for a man's) with "Obstacles and Entrances Clearly Marked." Maps of the digestive system and of phrenology systems, roadmaps to success or despair, missionary maps from the 19th century, and lots of maps from famous books such as Gulliver's Travels. Just think of the word "map" as a metaphor for our desire to "locate" ourselves in an interior as well as an exterior way and you'll get the gist of this book. It's really delightful, and you can go back to it again and again. You'll see new details and find new things to think about each time you do.

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