Cartographies of Time

New book about the history of graphic representations of time, 'Cartographies of Time - A History of the Timeline', by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, writes about the subjects while handing us some rare and beautiful maps, charts and diagrams.

'Spiegazione della Carta Istorica dell'Italia' (Historical map of Italy) by Girolamo Andrea Martignoni

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Edward Quin’s 1828 “Historical Atlas” used a series of maps to show changes in the world’s political divisions. In successive maps, the clouds roll back to reveal how much of the world was known to the West at the time. The map at left shows the state of the West at the time of the death of Emperor Constantine, in 337.

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The Imagery of C.G. Jung

The exhibition, “The Red Book of C. G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology,” opening Oct. 7, at the Rubin Museum of Art will be built around the first public display of Carl Jung’s legendary Red Book.

The Red Book, a large, leather bound, illuminated volume that Jung created between 1914 and 1930, and which contained the nucleus of his later works. While Jung considered the Red Book, or Liber Novus (New Book) to be the central work in his oeuvre, it has remained unpublished till this day, and unavailable for study and unseen by the public.

The volume, exactly the same size as the original, consists of a full facsimile of Jung’s work, printed on the highest quality paper and with exquisite attention paid to reproducing Jung’s calligraphy and paintings as faithfully as possible. via phantasmaphile

Childhood is a Branch of Cartography

"Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map." sais the writer Michael Chabon and presents his concerns "If children are not permitted—not taught—to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?"

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"Most great stories of adventure, from The Hobbit to Seven Pillars of Wisdom, come furnished with a map. That's because every story of adventure is in part the story of a landscape, of the interrelationship between human beings (or Hobbits, as the case may be) and topography. Every adventure story is conceivable only with reference to the particular set of geographical features that in each case sets the course, literally, of the tale. But I think there is another, deeper reason for the reliable presence of maps in the pages, or on the endpapers, of an adventure story, whether that story is imaginatively or factually true. We have this idea of armchair traveling, of the reader who seeks in the pages of a ripping yarn or a memoir of polar exploration the kind of heroism and danger, in unknown, half-legendary lands, that he or she could never hope to find in life. This is a mistaken notion, in my view. People read stories of adventure—and write them—because they have themselves been adventurers. Childhood is, or has been, or ought to be, the great original adventure, a tale of privation, courage, constant vigilance, danger, and sometimes calamity.. The traveler soon learns that the only way to come to know a city, to form a mental map of it, however provisional, and begin to find his or her own way around it is to visit it alone, preferably on foot, and then become as lost as one possibly can. ."

Portable Cities(Lisbon)

Yin Xiuzhen Portable Cities(Lisbon) suitcase installations with used clothes and audio 2001 - 2005