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Walking and Mapping : Artists as Cartographers

2013
Mike Leggett
Book review

Walking and Mapping : Artists as Cartographers
Karen O'Rourke
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. and London, England.
328 pp., b/w illus. 
ISBN 978-0-262-01850-0 (hc)

Both senses of the term mapping are caught up in a detailed hagiography of artists who, in one way or another, engage with movement through space, mainly as walkers. Records of the experience, both by participants and the inventors of the artworks are mapped across a time spectrum both contemporary and historical.' (in Leonardo Digital Reviews)