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As opposed to those who insist maps ârepresentâ reality the critical cartographers, led by Wood, have insisted maps represent nothing. Instead, they present an argument about the world through the careful choice of content arranged graphically at a specific scale. This thesis, and the mechanisms of
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to the present have used maps as a medium for the exposition of cultural and political ideas and ideals. Again, the general thesis is the same as in Wood's other work: imagesâwhether map, art, or artful mapsâpresent a thesis through selection of subject matter self-consciously arranged through a
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summed up Wood's contributions this way: âFor over twenty-five years, Denis Wood has been provoking us to think differently and critically about maps and map use.â The book was first issued in 1992 as a catalogue accompanying a major exhibition called
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