9/2/2023 0 Comments Queen photomontager online![]() The exhibition also features items that have never been publicly displayed before including NewcastleGateshead, a photomontage map by the acclaimed artist Layla Curtis a surviving fragment of the Sheldon tapestry map of Gloucestershire, one of a set of four 16th-century tapestry maps and a Tibetan thangka-a Buddhist ‘map’ showing the path to personal enlightenment. Some are made of animal skin, some woven in wool, others made from the leaves of coconut trees, and the exhibition also shows how maps have migrated from paper to pixels in recent years. The exhibition brings together an extraordinary selection of ancient, pre-modern and contemporary maps drawn from a range of cultures and in a variety of formats. Talking Maps highlights the diverse and surprising role of maps through the ages, from guides to the afterlife and windows into alternative worlds to tools that have been used to manage land, nations and empires.” Highlights from the exhibition ![]() Nick Millea, Map Librarian at the Bodleian Libraries added: “Maps do so much more than simply getting us from A to B. The exhibition shows how maps are creative objects that establish conversations between the people who made them and the individuals and communities that use them.” Professor Jerry Brotton said: “Every map tells a story. Others provide routes to religious salvation, while online interactive maps show us the global and environmental challenges we face in the 21st-century. The exhibition also shows how cities are administered using maps, and how they can also be used to deceive its attackers how maps are used in war, and drawing national boundaries and how artists can use them to reflect on the state of our nation in light of Brexit. ![]() Talking Maps explores how maps are neither transparent objects of scientific communication, nor ideological tools, but proposals about the world that help people to understand who they are by describing where they are. Featuring ‘imaginary maps’ such as Grayson Perry’s Red Carpet and Map of Nowhere and JRR Tolkien’s maps of Middle-earth, the exhibition offers a new perspective on the enduring power of maps. ![]() The exhibition, based in the Weston Library of the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, showcases iconic treasures from the Bodleian’s world-renowned collection of more than 1.5 million maps, together with exciting new works on loan and specially commissioned 3D installations. ![]()
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