INSPIRATION & RESOURCES
Artists
Mark Bradford is a visual artist who works in layered surfaces with many different media. His works are very large and are reminiscent of the posters, cityscapes, and advertisements that we see every day......and maps.
Books
Maphead, Ken Jennings 2009 -yes, the Jeopardy champion, 2009
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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet Reif Larson, 2009 - a novel about a 12 yr old genius cartographer
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Ten Maps that Explain Everything about the World, Tim Marshall , 2015
The Map as Art, Katharine Harmon, 2009
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The Quarantine Atlas, Mapping Global Life Under Covid-19, Laura Bliss, A Bloomberg CityLab Project, 2022
The Phantom Atlas, the Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps, Edward Brooke-Hitching
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The Curious Map Book, Ashley Boynton-Williams, 2015
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Mapping the Silk Road and Beyond, Kenneth Nebenzahl, 2004 - some favorite devices that mapmakers have invented to describe our round world on flat paper.
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Cartographia, Mapping Civilizations and Beyond, Vincent Virga & The Library of Congress - wonderful history of cartography
Julie Mehretu, an artist from Nigeria, currently working in Boston, creates monumental imagery using lines and added elements. Your eye moves aross huge spaces and is constantly fascinated.
