{"id":3482,"date":"2012-08-12T19:37:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2012-08-12T19:37:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T17:37:46","slug":"la-vision-del-mundo-de-richard-edes-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/?p=3482","title":{"rendered":"La visi\u00f3n del mundo de Richard Edes Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He comentado en muchas ocasiones en este blog que <strong>el punto de vista del cart\u00f3grafo es vital a la hora de comprender un determinado mapa realizado por \u00e9l<\/strong>. Este ejemplo que quiero destacar hoy es especialmente significativo de una forma de ver el mundo en una \u00e9poca singular, el tiempo que rode\u00f3 la Segunda Guerra Mundial y los principios de la Guerra Fr\u00eda. Se trata de los mapas de<strong> Richard Edes Harrison<\/strong>, arquitecto y cart\u00f3grafo estadounidense que desarroll\u00f3 un estilo muy personal de ver el mundo a trav\u00e9s de los muchos mapas que public\u00f3 en <em>Time<\/em> y, sobre todo, en la revista <em>Fortune<\/em>, a lo largo de los a\u00f1os treinta y cuarenta del siglo pasado. He aqu\u00ed un magn\u00edfico ejemplo de su obra, a medio camino entre la ilustraci\u00f3n y la cartograf\u00eda estrat\u00e9gica. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/vts\/f\/fortune\/menubc.htm\">M\u00e1s ejemplos<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lectura recomendada<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philip-riggs.com\/decorative-maps-blog\/map-of-venezuela-richard-edes-harrison\/\">Is This Map Of Venezuela By Richard Edes Harrison The Perfect Map? <\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/vts\/f\/fortune\/xa\/47.jpg\">| Ampliar mapa |<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alpoma\/7767157502\/\" title=\"Richard_Edes_Harrison, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7132\/7767157502_90f3007f2b_c.jpg\" width=\"620\" alt=\"Richard_Edes_Harrison\" class=\"otros\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>He comentado en muchas ocasiones en este blog que el punto de vista del cart\u00f3grafo es vital a la hora de comprender un determinado mapa <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/?p=3482\" title=\"La visi\u00f3n del mundo de Richard Edes Harrison\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-viejos-mapas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/7767157502_90f3007f2b_c.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p93Co9-Ua","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6103,"url":"https:\/\/alpoma.net\/carto\/?p=6103","url_meta":{"origin":3482,"position":0},"title":"La visi\u00f3n del mundo de Christian Sgrooten","author":"alpoma","date":"mayo 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Christian Sgrooten fue un cart\u00f3grafo alem\u00e1n del siglo XVI que estuvo al servicio del rey Felipe II de Espa\u00f1a. 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