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Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps
Stephen J. Hornsby
Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps
Stephen J. Hornsby
Pictorial maps are artistic renderings rather than scientific representations of places that combine cartographic elements with texts and images and feature bold and arresting graphic design, bright and cheerful colors, and lively detail: think Saul Steinberg s famous New Yorker cover, View of the World from 9th Avenue. In the United States, the period of the 1920s through about 1970 represented a golden age for the form, with thousands of innovative pictorial maps mass-produced for use as advertisements or decorative consumer objects. This book is the first to consider pictorial maps as a distinct genre. Following an introduction by historian and collector Stephen Hornsby, it features 158 pictorial maps organized into six thematic sections, ranging from Maps to Amuse to Maps for War, all of them in full and glorious color. The book is published in association with the Library of Congress, which has extensive holdings in pictorial maps."
304 pages, 188 color plates
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 23, 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9780226386041 |
Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 288 × 230 × 26 mm · 1.53 kg |
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