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Taking possession : the cartouche as cultural text in eighteenth-century American maps

Author
Clarke, G. N. G.
Document type
Article (journal)
Language
English
Source
Word & image. 1988, Num. 2, Vol. 4, p. 455-474, 14 ill.; maps
ISSN
0266-6286
Abstract (en)
Considers the status of decoration on maps, and suggests ways in which it is basic to the way maps contained, in their "look", a hierarchy of value: a visual register in which a map's cultural meaning is suggested through what might be called its visual calligraphy (the lettering, colour, thickness of lines, symbols, as well as the larger cartouches and embellishments) which declares the map as both cultural text and ideological image--a political frame of space in which the map is offered as a scaled version of control and, by implication, of possession.
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DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910701-00454761

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