![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Divided into three sections-"Personal Geography," "At Home in the World," and "Realms of Fantasy"-the book features 50 full-color and 50 black-and-white cartographic illustrations, ranging from a humorous diplomatic atlas of Europe and Asia to a canine view of the world to hand-drawn maps of shelters along the Appalachian Trail.Ī selection of diverse essays, from the academic to the personal to the humorous, contextualize the maps within the larger conceptual narrative exploring humanity's compulsion to map and chart its place in the universe. ![]() You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination is a beautiful and meditative compendium of maps and musings on maps that explore, in the broadest possible terms, the human condition. Three years later, Qin continued the trek where the original marchers had left off, accompanied by a camera crew and a tattoo artist, who continually updated the map on Qin's back. In 2002, China's Long March Project embarked upon a 'Walking Visual Display' along the route of the 1934-1936 historic 6,000-mile Long March, and Beijing-based artist Qin kept tracked the group's route in a tattooed map on his back. Qin Ga, 'Site 22: Mao Zedong Temple,' 2005. ![]()
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