As a kid I was obsessed with the movie Time Bandits, especially the time map. Textbook timelines always looked paltry and pathetic in comparison. A new book from Princeton Architectural Press shows that the timeline doesn't have to be so straightforward. Cartographies of Time, by features a variety of historic timelines that use temples, branches, ladders, curves and even the human form to graphically represent the passing of time. Many of these timelines, like the historical charts published by Italian scholar and poet Girolamo Martignoni in 1721, look like maps. My favorite is the 1912 Marconi North Atlantic Communication chart which tracked ships like the Titanic at points in time rather than by their geographic location - perhaps this is the one that opens up the time holes...
(Tonight: stop by Cabinet Magazine's offices in Brooklyn for a book party on April 15th 7pm)
They turn out pretty nice.
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