To support “Pictures from an Expedition: Aesthetics of Cartographic Exploration in the Americas,” a two-day symposium held at the Newberry Library, June 20–21, 2013. The symposium brought together national and international art historians, historians, and geographers to present and discuss research on the visual material created during 19th-century cartographic explorations in the Americas. The goal was to refocus attention on maps as aesthetic objects produced in dialogue with other aspects of 19th-century visual culture, such as methods of printing and production, technologies of display and distribution, and the role of government and commerce in artistic and cartographic production.
The Newberry Library
$25,000
Chicago, Illinois
2012