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Lies of the Land
2024,2025
Overview
Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic
roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an
original perspective on discourses of accuracy and their
relationship to the pictorial origins of modern mapmaking.
Until the seventeenth century, most mapmakers in France were
painters. Schooled in techniques of drawing and perspective-and in
the careful study of nature that we associate with early
modernity-they also learned the more expressive and imaginative
Mannerist forms that dominated French painting in this period.
Their maps draw on conventions of both painting and mapmaking to
create beautiful, informative, and persuasive images for a wide
variety of contexts and purposes. In this book, Camille Serchuk
explores the strategies these cartographers deployed to weave
together accuracy, ornament, and artifice in maps at all scales.
Looking beyond the techniques of measurement and perspective,
Serchuk shows how painterly interventions framed and manipulated
the appearance and reception of cartographic objects.
Lies of the Land is an important new
assessment of the character and status of early modern cartography
that challenges binary distinctions between art and science and
between decorative and epistemic images. It will appeal especially
to art historians and historians of sixteenth-century France as
well as scholars of map history.
Publisher
Penn State University Press,Pennsylvania State University Press
Subject
ISBN
0271097736, 9780271097732, 0271098694, 9780271098692
