Linotype on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Map to Indicate
Presented by the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
abstraction
countries and continents
emotions, concepts and ideas
inscriptions
irony
map
non-representational
places
symbols and personifications
text
universal concepts
USA, Iowa
USA, Kentucky
<p><span>Map to Not Indicate</span> is one of a series of three prints created by the collective Art and Language, which play with the conventions of marking the world’s geographical boundaries. The extensive title lists all the geographic areas that the artists have removed from the map. Only Iowa and Kentucky are outlined and labelled but, floating like islands, they lose geographical relevance, metaphorically cast adrift from their cartographic moorings.</p><p><em>Gallery label, March 2018</em></p>
paper print linotype
17 April 2006 – 12 March 2007
2007-03-12
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2006-04-17
Image / Text
Collection based display
11 January 2008 – 22 February 2009
2009-02-22
11 January 2008
2008-01-11
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2008-01-11
Image/Text: Rules and Systems
Collection based display
28 April 2012 – 10 March 2013
2013-03-10
28 April 2012 – 10 March 2013
2013-03-10
2012-04-28
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2012-04-28
Charles Harrison and Conceptual Art in Britain
Collection based display
12 April 2016 – 29 August 2016
2016-08-29
12 April 2016 – 29 August 2016
2016-08-29
2016-04-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2016-04-12
Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964-1979
Exhibition
Map to Not Indicate
image: 508 × 629 mm
Presented by the Institute of Contemporary Prints 1975
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<i>Map to Not Indicate</i> is one of a series of three prints created by the collective Art and Language, which play with the conventions of marking the world’s geographical boundaries. The extensive title lists all the geographic areas that the artists have removed from the map. Only Iowa and Kentucky are outlined and labelled but, floating like islands, they lose geographical relevance, metaphorically cast adrift from their cartographic moorings. </p>
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abstraction countries and continents emotions, concepts and ideas inscriptions irony map non-representational places symbols and personifications text universal concepts USA, Iowa USA, Kentucky