Scope and Contents

Auction catalogue. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Ross: Amazon.com: The book is beautifully produced on excellent stock, binding and gorgeous reproductions; the artists use maps as a "medium for expressing their observations, passions and anxieties about the contemporary world." There are 360 maps made from all sorts of media, traditional painting, modified globes, tree branches, butterfly wings, spider webs and more. Unusual examples include: Kim Baranowski's map of alien-abduction sites, which is part of the "Mappa Mundi" series: "information that would give schoolchildren nightmares; areas of the world not yet hit by asteroids, potential U.S. nuclear targets ... or "show-and-tell for the paranoid." Vik Muniz created a world map using junk from garbage dumps, assembled with the help of youngsters from the shantytowns of Rio de Janeiro. Corriette Schoenaerts, 'Europe,' 2005, is a construction of countries and continents made out of clothing. In 2002, China's Long March Project embarked upon a `Walking Visual Display' along the...