Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art

<p>Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art through the concept of poetic cartography. </p><p>The problem of mapping although indebted to the spatial turn of poststructuralist philosophy is reconstructed as hermeneutics while exposing the nexus between topology space-time and memory. The book posits that the emergence of mapping as a ubiquitous theme in contemporary art can be attributed to the power of the cartographic model to constitute multiple worldviews that can be seen as paradigmatic of the post-modern and contemporary condition. </p><p>This book will be of particular interest to scholars in art history art theory aesthetics and cartography.</p>