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The Guilford Press
October 1992
On Sale: October 16, 1992
248 pages ISBN: 0898624932 EAN: 9780898624939 Paperback
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This volume ventures into terrain where even the most
sophisticated map fails to lead--through the mapmaker's
bias. Denis Wood shows how maps are not impartial reference
objects, but rather instruments of communication,
persuasion, and power. Like paintings, they express a point
of view. By connecting us to a reality that could not exist
in the absence of maps--a world of property lines and voting
rights, taxation districts and enterprise zones--they embody
and project the interests of their creators. Sampling the
scope of maps available today, illustrations include Peter
Gould's AIDS map, Tom Van Sant's map of the earth, U.S.
Geological Survey maps, and a child's drawing of the world.
THE POWER OF MAPS was published in conjunction with an
exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of Design.
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