This innovative new volume offers an in–depth exploration of scale, one of the most crucial elements in the creation and reception of art. Illustrates how scale has compelled audiences to rethink the significance and importance of specific works of art Takes a comparative art historical approach exploring issues of scale in an array of forms, from Islamic architecture to contemporary photography A global consideration of scale, with examples of work from ancient Egypt, eighteenth–century Korea, and contemporary Europe The newest addition to the Art History Special Issue Book Series INDICE: Notes on contributors .Scale to Size: An Introduction (Joan Kee and Emanuele Lugli) .1. Scale and Pictoriality in Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture (Whitney Davis) .2. The Invisible Miniature: Framing the Soul in Chinese Art and Architecture (Wu Hung) .3. The Monumental Miniature: Liquid Architecture in the Kilgas of Cairo (Margaret S. Graves) .4. Freedom I do reveal to you : Scale, Microarchitecture, and the Rise of the Turriform Civic Monument in Fourteenth–Century Northern Europe (Achim Timmermann) .5. Measuring the Bones: On Francesco di Giorgio Martini?s Saluzzianus Skeleton (Emanuele Lugli) .6. The Measure of the World: Scenes from a Journey to Kaes ng (Joan Kee) .7. Photography and Scale: Projection, Exhibition, Collection (Olivier Lugon) .Index
- ISBN: 978-1-119-14250-8
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha Publicación: 04/12/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés