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23%OFFStephen A. Hornsby - Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps - 9780226386041 - V9780226386041
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Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps

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Description for Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages, 188 color plates. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 215. .
Instructive, amusing, colorful pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More recent generations of pictorial map artists have continued that traditional mixture of whimsy and fact, combining cartographic elements with text and images and featuring bold and arresting designs, bright and cheerful colors, and lively detail. In the United States, the art form flourished during the 1920s to the 1970s, when thousands of innovative maps were mass-produced for use as advertisements and decorative objects the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226386041
SKU
V9780226386041
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-19

About Stephen A. Hornsby
Stephen J. Hornsby is director of the Canadian-American Center and professor of geography and Canadian studies at the University of Maine. He is author and co-editor of several books, including the prize-winning Historical Atlas of Maine.

Reviews for Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps
Fifty-eight full-color, high-quality pictorial maps that amuse, instruct, and show place and region, industry, wars, and the postwar US provide a variety of perspectives to describe the country. The drawings, created primarily from the 1920s to the 1960s by US artists and mapmakers, mostly convey each designer's own world view. Hornsby assiduously collected the maps and images thematically. . . ... Read more

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