object of desire

Romy Schneider's image appear on a folded page, posed on what appear to be a crisped bed sheet, Schneider, beautiful, seductive, distorted, immortal, yet in ones mind very much dead. the image was as if cut in a harsh gesture in to two parts, as if trying the give 3 dimensions to the flat 2 dimensional photo, the image, the shapes, the shades of grey, creating a tensed duality in the work.

Rami Maymon

Map of Nowhere

Grayson Perry. Map of Nowhere, 2008. Purple color etching from five plates, ed. 10/15.

It combines a diagram of the artist’s body with the medieval Hereford Mappa Mundi . The composition is riddle with allegorical references to the artist’s own identities and witty allusions to current social, political, and economic themes. It is a visual encyclopedia of a complex world.

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.

via Bibliodyssey