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An art, research and media project investigating the role of landscape imagery in international conflict through drawing events at militarized sites and publications.

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Imagining Global War: Popular Cartography during World War II

September 2, 2014 Tatsiana Zhurauliova

A look at American cartographic representations of WWII Europe, providing historical context for understanding our conception of global space.

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In Historical, Guest Contribution, Origins, EU Border Tags World War II, Cartography, EU Border

Battlefields of Santa Barbara

January 3, 2013 Jason Hill
Detail map of Ellwood and Ellwood Offshore Oil Field, showing location of Luton-Bell Well No. 17, damaged by Japanese shelling Feb 23, 1942

Detail map of Ellwood and Ellwood Offshore Oil Field, showing location of Luton-Bell Well No. 17, damaged by Japanese shelling Feb 23, 1942

How does modern war mark the California landscape? A single day's photographic record produced on the Southern California coast offers one compelling answer.

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In Historical, Guest Contribution, Origins Tags Santa Barbara, Pacific, World War II, San Clemente Island

Los Angeles: Camouflage and Contestation

September 20, 2012 Jason Weems
Bird's eye view of Disneyland in Anaheim, California, 1958 | Courtesy of Stuff from the Park Blog

Bird's eye view of Disneyland in Anaheim, California, 1958 | Courtesy of Stuff from the Park Blog

Art historian Jason Weems examines three mid-century constructions understood as staples of the California landscape: Disneyland, Lakewood, and the aerospace industry.

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In Guest Contribution, Historical, Origins Tags Disneyland, World War II, Los Angeles, Northrop Grumman

Tracing the San Clemente Island Weapons Testing Range

July 17, 2012 Hillary Mushkin
Installation view of Documentation as Art/Art as Documentation, exhibit at ARCO Center for Visual Art, 1979 | Photo : Tom McMillin

Installation view of Documentation as Art/Art as Documentation, exhibit at ARCO Center for Visual Art, 1979 | Photo : Tom McMillin

San Clemente Island is the subject of a draw-in on the deck of a sport fishing boat named "The Fury".

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Tags San Clemente Island, US Navy, Pacific, World War II

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