Number 53, Winterjournal 2006 of the Northcartographic American Cartographic perspectives Information Society 1 cartographic perspectives Number 53, Winter 2006 in this issue Letter from the Editor INTRODUCTION Art and Mapping: An Introduction 4 Denis Cosgrove Dear Members of NACIS, FEATURED ARTICLES Welcome to CP53, the first issue of Map Art 5 Cartographic Perspectives in 2006. I Denis Wood plan to be brief with my column as there is plenty to read on the fol- Interpreting Map Art with a Perspective Learned from 15 lowing pages. This is an important J.M. Blaut issue on Art and Cartography that Dalia Varanka was spearheaded about a year ago by Denis Wood and John Krygier. Art-Machines, Body-Ovens and Map-Recipes: Entries for a 24 It’s importance lies in the fact that Psychogeographic Dictionary nothing like this has ever been kanarinka published in an academic journal. Ever. To punctuate it’s importance, Jake Barton’s Performance Maps: An Essay 41 let me share a view of one of the John Krygier reviewers of this volume: CARTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES …publish these articles. Nothing Cartographic Design on Maine’s Appalachian Trail 51 more, nothing less. Publish them. Michael Hermann and Eugene Carpentier III They are exciting. They are interest- ing: they stimulate thought! …They CARTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS are the first essays I’ve read (other Illinois Historical Aerial Photography Digital Archive Keeps 56 than exhibition catalogs) that actu- Growing ally try — and succeed — to come to Arlyn Booth and Tom Huber terms with the intersections of maps and art, that replace the old formula REVIEWS of maps in/as art, art in/as maps by Historical Atlas of Central America 58 Reviewed by Mary L. Johnson (continued on page 3) (continued on page 3) NACIS WEB SITE www.nacis.org 2 cartographic perspectives Number 53, Winter 2006 Editor Scott M. Freundschuh cartographic perspectives Department of Geography University of Minnesota, Duluth 329 Cina Hall Duluth, MN 55812 journal of the (218) 726-6226 North American Cartographic Information Society fax: (218) 726-6386 ISSN 1048-9085 [email protected] Cartographic Perspectives is published triannually © 2006 North American Cartographic Information Society Assistant Editor Cartographic Techniques Editor Cartographic Collections Editor James R. 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Carolina - Greensboro of the New York Public Library. Pat Gilmartin Margaret Pearce University of South Carolina Ohio University Mike Hermann Nadine Schuurman University of Maine and Simon Fraser University Purple Lizard Publishing Erik Steiner John B. Krygier University of Oregon Ohio Wesleyan University Ren Vasiliev Michael Leitner State Univ. of New York at Geneseo NACIS holds the copyrights to all items Louisiana State University published in each issue. Matt Knutzen Denis Wood retains the copyright to his cover art. Robert Lloyd Independent Scholar The opinions expressed are those of the University of South Carolina author(s), and not necessarily the opinion of NACIS. Number 53, Winter 2006 cartographic perspectives 3 (letter from editor continued) A note from Christopher Mixon, City. Thinking it was high time to Cartographic Collections resolve this issue, I blurted out, engaging with the ideologies of “map” Section Editor “How about Cartographic Collec- and “art.” This work might be done tions?” and after a brief discussion, elsewhere…[but]…I feel, [it would be] In the entrance to Auburn Univer- the change was made official. The constrained by the old formula…[this sity’s Library we have a bulletin name change first appeared in work] isn’t being done anywhere near board where the campus commu- our last issue, CP 52, as you may cartographic journals and it desper- nity posts items such as “Subleaser have noticed. So, from now until ately needs to be!… Needed” and “Motorcycle for someone decides differently, the Sale.” There are never any maps Map Library Bulletin Board will be Cartographic Perspectives really is there. So, when I started editing known as Cartographic Collections. setting new ground with this issue. this column, I had proposed a If you have some ideas for I congratulate the four authors name change from the old Map articles that deal with entire collec- here on creating a volume that will Library Bulletin Board to something tions—or even a particular map— significantly impact research and more than postings and pushpins. whether it covers cataloging, discussions on art and cartography. I wanted the column to become a shelving, paper maps, or digital I also want to thank John Krygier prominent feature and to attract maps, please consider submitting and Denis Wood for pulling this more substantial works. I also your work to Cartographic Collec- issue together. These papers weave wanted to open the door to articles tions. Submit your work to me, a story that includes an historical about collections that may not re- preferably as an email attachment account of map art (Wood), a dis- side in libraries as we know them. and a MS Word document to mix- cussion of cognition and map art My personal interest lies in the [email protected]. Submissions from the 1960s to 1980s (Varanka), exploding number of digital col- via regular mail are gladly ac- a snap-shot of present day map lections to be found. And, I have cepted and should be sent to me at art undertakings (kanarinka), and noticed that the Western Associa- RBD Library, 231 Mell St., Auburn finally a focus on one present day tion of Map Libraries (WAML) is University, AL 36849-5605. map artist (Krygier). This issue working to create a clearinghouse ends with a catalogue of map art- for these digital collections. Christopher Mixon ists (Wood). Enjoy! I didn’t make a formal proposal As always, I welcome your com- about a name change until we had ments and suggestions. our board meeting in Portland, Maine, in 2004. No changes were Warmest Regards, made at that time. Another year passed and the subject came up Scott Freundschuh, Editor at our board meeting in Salt Lake in this issue (continued from page 1) Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic 60 History Reviewed by Russell S. Kirby VISUAL FIELDS Attacks Shift From Bagdad to the North 61 Designed by Matthew Ericson, James Glanz, and Archie Tse CATALOGUE OF MAP ARTISTS 62 Compiled by Denis Wood COLOR FIGURES 69 4 cartographic perspectives Number 53, Winter 2006 Art and Mapping: An Introduction Denis Cosgrove Department of Geography University of California Los Angeles [email protected] or cartographers, geographers, and the many other vergence, but of how it may be understood historically people who produce, use or variously engage and critically. Their particular interest is in a much with maps, these are interesting times. Technology more activist and interventionist approach to carto- means that the map is everywhere in daily life: end- graphic art than is represented in Casey’s work, and lessly flexible, manipulable, reproducible and labile. there is no question that this is a dominant concern Spatial referencing and coding give to cartographic among many artists who embrace maps and mapping reason a centrality in business, in administration and today. This concern is very apparent from kanarinka’s in daily consumption that is already unprecedented discussion of the inheritance of Situationist mapping. and seemingly boundless in its growth. With the Whether Varanka is correct to suggest that there exists ubiquity of maps and mapping comes increased a deeper cognitive bias towards the graphic repre- reflection and critical response among academics and sentation of spatial knowledge: a ‘natural mapping activists to be sure, but also from artists. So, while the … that creates personal images of places, movement, claims and conventions of scientific cartography have and landmarks, highly invested with meaning, free to been debated and ruthlessly deconstructed within the draw on the unconscious and memories, but experi- academy, in the creative worlds of the arts, maps and mental in depiction,’ is debatable, but she is complete- the processes of mapping have proved astonishingly ly correct to say that ‘it was only after cartography fertile material for artistic expression and intervention. acknowledged its relation to Post-Modernism [i.e., the The converging attention to maps and mapping relativity of its own claims to objectivity and truth] demands comment and understanding, and this is be- that cartographic theory could include the mapping ginning to happen in many places. The contributions terms of artists.’ that this special issue of Cartographic Perspectives have There is much more to be said about the extraordi- brought together here—in which scholars and artists nary convergence of artistic creativity, technology and comment on each others’ cartographic activities—are criticism that surrounds mapping. Some current myths the latest evidence of a burgeoning critical literature about both cartographic and artistic assumptions and on the convergence of art and cartography. Although activities—even some that find voice in these papers— philosophical in nature and perhaps conservative in will need to be thoughtfully and carefully examined terms of art practices, Edward Casey’s Earth-Mapping before the wave of interest in these questions passes.