The sweep of its history, only intermittently turgid, has true grandeur, and the incidentals of the tale are like desirables found in a cluttered antiques shop... Hewitt's admirable excursions into the relationships between maps and art, maps and reason, maps and the picturesque, maps and poetry, maps and war and politics and ideology... more than make up for the book's longueurs".
Logs are piled up in an alcove, maps and art hang on the walls, books fill every shelf; if you pick one up and don't finish it, take it home and post it back.
He settled in Reading, working for a design company, having first combined his interest in geography, maps and art by drawing up an illustrated city walking guide to Salisbury.
She had been Gov. George E. Pataki's top adviser on criminal justice issues, and mementos from her previous life -- police shields inside a display case and hats lined up on a bookcase bearing the emblems of various law enforcement agencies -- sit alongside maps and art work of the transit system in her office.
Light, photos, words, map, and art flitted across the frieze above the band.
More recently, Campolese took the design concept seen in Level one step further, bringing her experience with video mapping and LED art to the world of decorative arts.
Mapping and landscape art evolved together in the Renaissance, and this exhibition reveals something quite shocking to conventional art history: that maps were displayed as works of art before landscape paintings were similarly valued.
The creative new media agency Ouchhh has made all manner of audiovisual works, from large-scale projection mapping and light art installations to animation and commercial advertisements.
Haisam Hussein's longtime interest in maps and visual art led him to the graphics department at Condé Nast Traveler (after a brief stint at a bridal magazine).
Peter Barber, head of maps at the British Library and author of Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art, cites a number of modern artists who are playing with the concept, from Grayson Perry's Map of an Englishman to Stephen Walter's The Island.
