Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art

Claire Reddleman received her PhD in cultural studies from Goldsmiths, University of London.

"Cartographic visions and the Apollo’s eye organized, ordered, quantified, and defined the spaces of the modern world. How do we make sense of a contemporary world in which surveillance cameras, drones, and satellites are no longer strange but are our everyday reality? Claire Reddleman’s inspired book brings together critical cartographic studies with the work of artists whose creations depend on maps, drones, and related tools. This, the resulting book, generates theoretical tools for grappling with uncertain times." - James Housefield, University of California, Davis

• Table of contents: Introduction - From critical cartography to cartographic abstraction: rethinking the production of cartographic viewing through contemporary artworks Chapter One – Reconfiguring the view from nowhere: collage and complicity in Targets by Joyce Kozloff Chapter Two – The drone’s eye view: networked vision and visibility in works by James Bridle and Trevor PaglenChapter Three – Remote viewing, cartographic abstraction and the antipodes: three works by Layla CurtisChapter Four – Signification in the soundscape: Bill Fontana’s River Sounding Chapter Five – Cartographic abstraction: a material modality of thought and experience