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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Unconventional Maps: Exploring the Stories of Carto
 graphic Curiosities\nEvent Url: http://www.artsboston.org/event/detail/441
 556380/Unconventional_Maps_Exploring_the_Stories_of_Cartographic_Curiositi
 es\nEvent Date Begin: 2012-02-10\nEvent Date End: 2012-03-12\n\nUnconventi
 onal Maps: Exploring the Stories of Cartographic Curiosities\nWhen reading
  maps\, we expect map makers to use standard conventions\, especially in r
 egard to projection\, orientation\, scale\, and symbols. When a map maker 
 does not use generally-accepted practices\, we ask why? What is the story 
 the map maker is trying to tell?\nThis exhibition of 25 maps and atlases h
 ighlights a variety of unconventional maps spanning the history of the pri
 nted map. For each\, we demonstrate how it defies convention\, and how tha
 t particular cartographic design heightens its story.\nThe earliest maps\,
  dated from the mid-'0s portray an upside-down Africa and a world divided 
 into three continents\, reflecting medieval geographical concepts. Also re
 presented are elaborately decorated world maps from the 17th and 18th cent
 uries\, classic 19th century bird's eye views\, as well as more contempora
 ry educational\, cartoon\, propaganda\, pictorial and journalistic maps. E
 xhibition supported by a grant from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
 \n\nStart time: Normal Library Hours
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SUMMARY:Unconventional Maps: Exploring the Stories of Cartographic Curiosit
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