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cartography

[kahr-tog-ruh-fee] / kɑrˈtɒg rə fi /


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“Critical Cartography: Larissa Fassler in Manchester” includes drawings, paintings and sculptures based on research and observation of cities.

From Washington Times • Nov. 15, 2020

Cartography was at the heart of Tolkien’s most famous creation, “The Lord of the Rings,” a trilogy that chronicles the journey of Frodo, a hobbit, to destroy the ring he inherited from his uncle Bilbo.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2019

Although Tarrat’s “Unmapped Cartography: Postcards From the Past and Other Foreign Countries” includes a few of Spurlock’s imaginary maps, most of it is based on actual places.

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2017

The news at Neighborhood Church was the premiere of David Brynjar Franzson's "The Cartography of Time."

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2015

Cartography came as a technological package, along with gunpowder weaponry; and gunpowder weaponry really is about power, and nothing else.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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