Vocabulary
The science, art, and technology of making maps.
What is cartography?
In a colonial context, maps might include ___ as an attempt to catalogue newly seen species, represents anxiety around colonial voyages, and illustrates control over trade routes.
What are "sea monsters"?
This is the genre of painting where the central subject is the natural world, often scenery that includes water, land and/or the sky.
What is "Landscape Painting"?
The process by which nations become independent from colonial powers.
What is "decolonization"?
The Statue of Liberty is an allegory for ____.
What is Freedom?
The belief that the United States has been given a divine (god-given) right to expand westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This institution reinforces colonial hierarchies of control and ownership by separating cultural objects from their people / land of origin and using them so construct biased narratives.
What are "museums?"
Immigrant artists played a major role in this major art movement due to its relationship with globalism.
What is "Modernism"?
An often ambiguous border between two countries or the extreme edge of settled land where the wilderness begins
What is the frontier?
This is a form of cartography that engages with the idea that maps are used as tools of power, and may use art and cartography to rethink what maps can be.
What is "critical cartography"?
The partition of Africa was promoted through ___ due to the technology of the Industrial Revolution.
What is "Printmaking" / "Print Culture"?
This is the return of cultural objects to their cultures / place of origin.
What is "repatriation?"
The mass movement of a people away from their native land to multiple regions around the world, either through forced displacement or voluntary immigration.
What is "diaspora"?
Art that captures an unromanticised and authentic view of daily, often working-class, life.
What is realism?
This map places Mecca at the top of the map, flipping the common modern map and placing the South at the top.
What is the Al-Idrisi World Map / Early Islamic Maps?
Colonial Art often included ____ in order to highlight the bountiful resources of newly colonized land.
What is "lush vegetation / food / animals / abundance / etc."?
True or false: All immigrant artists made their identity (ethnicity, immigration status, etc.) the main topic of their work.
What is False?
The act of returning objects back to their place / people of origin.
What is Repatriation?
Firelei Baez places hybrid human-anima-plant figures on top of ____ to recognize the suffering of people and the environment at the hands of colonialism.
What are "archival colonial map prints"?
This place was a site of immigration in New York during the late 1800's early 1900's with horrendous conditions that perpetuated bias through harmful documentation.
What is "Ellis Island"?
Artist Narsiso Martinez paints scenes of laborers on ___ in order to highlight the economic and political relationship between the U.S. and Mexico in regard to labor.
What are "shipping packaging / boxes"?