Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline Tapa blanda - 2012

Princeton Architectural Press, 2012-02-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

Princeton Architectural Press, 2012. Paperback. New. New oversized (8.6 x 10.7 inches) softcover. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes bibliography, index, photos, and figures. 272 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. What does history look like? How do you draw time? Cartographies of Time is the first history of the timeline, written engagingly and with incredible visuals. The authors, both accomplished writers and historians, sketch the shifting field of graphic representations of history from the beginning of the print age through the present. They shed light on western views of history and on the complex relationship between general ideas about the course of events and the technical efforts to record and connect dates and names in the past. In addition to telling a rich, forgotten story, this book serves as a kind of grammar of historical representation, uncovering the ways in which time has been structured in thought and in images, in the Western… Leer más

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.