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I Map Therefore I Am ModernCartography and global modernity in the visual artsFerdinand, S.R.

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Cover artwork: Alison Hildreth, World Fort, graphite, etching, 23 x 30.5 cm, 2007. Courtesy of the artist.

I Map Therefore I Am Modern: Cartography and Global Modernity in the Visual Arts

ACADEMISCH PROEFSCHRIFT

ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor

aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam

op gezag van de Rector Magnificus

prof. dr. ir. K.I.J. Maex

ten overstaan van een door het College voor Promoties ingestelde

commissie, in het openbaar te verdedigen in de Agnietenkapel

op vrijdag 23 juni 2017, te 12:00 uur

door Simon Robin Ferdinand

geboren te Reading, Verenigd Koninkrijk

Promotiecommissie:

Promotor: prof. dr. ir. B.J. de Kloet, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Copromotor: dr. E. Peeren, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Overige leden: dr. H. Hawkins, Royal Holloway London

prof. dr. C. Minca, Wageningen UR

prof. dr. C.M.K.E. Lerm-Hayes, Universiteit van Amsterdam

prof. dr. L.A. Bialasiewicz, Universiteit van Amsterdam

prof. dr. M.G. Bal, Universiteit van Amsterdam

dr. N. Martin, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen

Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Part I

Maps and Modern World-Making

1 The Shock of the Whole:

Phenomenologies of Global Mapping in Solomon Nikritin’s The Old and the New 31

2 Combined and Uneven Cartography:

Cartography and Time in Alison Hildreth’s Forthrights and Meanders 55

3 Drawing Like a State:

Maps, Modernity and Warfare in Gert Jan Kocken’s Depictions 89

4 Insular Imaginations:

Statehood, Islands and Globalisation in Satomi Matoba’s Utopia 119

Part II

Artists Astride Shifting Mapping Paradigms

5 Cartography at Ground Level:

Spectrality and Streets in Jeremy Wood’s My Ghost and Meridians 151

6 Another Chorien:

Alternative Ontologies in Peter Greenaway’s A Walk Through H 177

Envoi 209

Works Cited 213

Summary 233

Samenvatting 237