“How An Artist Reinvented the Map”
Presented by: Susan Schulten
May 11th 6:30 p.m.
University of Denver, Anderson Academic Commons, Special Events Room
More Americans came into contact with maps during World War II than in any previous moment in American history. From the elaborate and innovative inserts in National Geographic to the schematic and tactical maps that filled daily newspapers, maps were everywhere. While war has perennially driven interest in geography, World War II was different. The urgency of the war, coupled with the advent of aviation, fueled the demand not just for more but different maps. The most important innovator to step into this breach was artist Richard Edes Harrison, who drew a series of elegant and gripping images of a world at war, and in the process persuaded the public that aviation and global war really had fundamentally disrupted the nature of geography.
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