Beschreibung:
Daniel Rosenberg zählt zu den neuen Shootingstars der US-Geschichtswissenschaft. Der Professor für Geschichte an der Universität von Oregon vermag erstklassig Wissenschaftsgeschichte und Kunstgeschichte miteinander zu verbinden. Er war 2011 Kurator der Ausstellung "Cartography of Time". Seine Arbeit wird u.a. durch das Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, die American Academy und die Springer Stiftung unterstützt.
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 tradition. Written for both the academically curious and the general reader, Cartographies of Time provides a set of tools for understanding the evolution and the significance of graphic representations of time both in history and in contemporary culture.