{"id":1805414,"date":"2021-11-14T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T23:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1805414"},"modified":"2021-11-14T18:50:29","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T23:50:29","slug":"max-schorms-modern-caricature-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2021\/11\/max-schorms-modern-caricature-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Sch\u00f6rm’s Modern Caricature Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Max Sch\u00f6rm<\/a> has resurrected the art of caricature maps (maps where countries are made to look like people, animal or other objects; they were a regular feature of propaganda maps of the late 19th and early 20th centuries). For the past year and a half Max has been posting new maps three times a week to his Instagram account<\/a>: the maps are of countries, but also continents, provinces, states, districts and cities; some of them are of countries\u2019 historical boundaries (e.g. interwar<\/a> Romania<\/a> or Habsburg Hungary<\/a>\u2014or, going even further back, Pangaea<\/a>) some of them (e.g. this pinwheel map of Myanmar<\/a>) are even animated. There\u2019s a lot of whimsy and pop-culture references that don\u2019t always match up with the borders they\u2019re filling out; these aren\u2019t the \u201cserio-comic\u201d satirical maps of the pre-World War I era. Which is to say: they\u2019re entertaining.<\/p>\n

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