The Map as Art Display in Ball State University Libraries
The Ball State University Libraries’ GIS Research and Map Collection
(GRMC) on the second floor of Bracken Library includes a variety of
cartographic resources in addition to the over 145,000 maps and atlases in the
collection. Some of these resources
include books about cartography.
The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography by Katharine
Harmon and Gayle Clemans was featured in O: The Oprah Magazine as a celebration
of maps as artwork. The book is
available in the GRMC and includes 360 colorful, unique maps and accompanying
essays.
The image above (click to enlarge) is called Man Cutting Globe, a
lithograph from the Charles Cowles Gallery in New York by Vernon Fisher. Fisher paints “highly realistic maps—or, in
this case,…the vaguely menacing act of carving a globe as if it were a
Halloween pumpkin.” A copy of the
lithograph will be featured on display in the windows of the GRMC through
October 31.
For more information about cartographic resources, please contact the
GRMC at 765-285-1097.
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