Author Description

"Traversing a varied and enchanting landscape with forays into the fields of geography, art, architecture, design, cartography, and film, Giuliana Bruno's Atlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map a cultural history of spatio-visual arts. Throughout these pages Bruno insists on the inseparability of seeing and traveling. In an evocative montage of words and pictures, she turns the voyeur into the voyageur, emphasizing not only that "sight" and "site" but also "motion" and "emotion" are irrevocably connected. Transporting us through artistic movements, historical trajectories, and cultural memory, Bruno opens up the world of emotion pictures. In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and Annette Messager; the filmmaking of Peter Greenaway and Michelangelo Antonioni; the architecture of cinema and its precursors - the curiosity cabinet, georama, garden design, view painting, the arts of memory and mapping; and on her own journeys to her native Italy. Visually luscious and daring in conception, the voyage for which Bruno is our cicerone opens new vistas and understandings at every turn. This is an affective mapping that ultimately puts us in touch with mental landscapes and inner worlds."--Jacket.