As the author of our best-selling book YOU ARE HERE, she has inspired legions of new devotees of imaginative maps.

“ features plenty of work that defies our expectations of what a map is.” -The National Post “A remarkable collection of 360 colorful, map-related visions of experimental cartography by well-known artists and design thinkers.” -Brain Pickings Whether you're interested in how we envision political landscapes, represent neighborhoods, or visually manipulate directional information, you can get there from here.” -Liquid Treat “Colorful, creative, and downright disorienting. “Rand McNally seems a world away.” -New York Times Magazine “Katharine Harmon's THE MAP AS ART is a collection of visionary topographies and imaginary geographies charted by artists including Vik Muniz, a Brazilian who re-creates the globe from pieces of junk Kim Jones, an American who draws obsessively detailed battle diagrams and the amazing Congolese painter Cheri Samba, who populates his dreamscape with figures from the all-too-real spheres of politics and finance.” -O, the Oprah Magazine By the end of the book, you wonder just which way is up.” -Art in America “In her striking new book THE MAP AS ART, author Katharine Harmon brings together a wide selection of maps clearly meant to be more psychologically expressive than geographically correct. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.

Together, the beautiful reproductions and telling commentary make this an essential volume for anyone open to exploring new paths. Essays by Gayle Clemans bring an in-depth look into the artists' maps of Joyce Kozloff, Landon Mackenzie, Ingrid Calame, Guillermo Kuitca, and Maya Lin. In The Map as Art, Harmon collects 360 colorful, map-related artistic visions by well-known artists-such as Ed Ruscha, Julian Schnabel, Olafur Eliasson, William Kentridge, and Vik Muniz-and many more less-familiar artists for whom maps are the inspiration for creating art.

Using paint, salt, souvenir tea towels, or their own bodies, map artists explore a world free ofgeographical constraints. It is little surprise that in an era of globalized politics, culture, and ecology contemporary artists are drawn to mapsto express their visions.

This volume by Katharine Harmon, author of our best-selling book You Are Here, extends that book's celebration of mapmaking to the world of artists' maps. As seen in O: The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, USA Today, Cool Hunting, and countless other media outlets, The Map as Art is available now in a paperback edition.

The Map As Art by Katharine Harmon