Full Description
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
Contents
Notes on Contributors 6
Chapter 1 Scale to Size: An Introduction 8
Joan Kee and Emanuele Lugli
Chapter 2 Scale and Pictoriality in Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture 26
Whitney Davis
Chapter 3 The Invisible Miniature: Framing the Soul in Chinese Art and Architecture 44
Wu Hung
Chapter 4 The Monumental Miniature: Liquid Architecture in the Kilgas of Cairo 62
Margaret S. Graves
Chapter 5 'Freedom I do reveal to you': Scale, Microarchitecture, and the Rise of the Turriform Civic Monument in Fourteenth-Century Northern Europe 82
Achim Timmermann
Chapter 6 Measuring the Bones: On Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Saluzzianus Skeleton 104
Emanuele Lugli
Chapter 7 The Measure of the World: Scenes From a Journey to Kaeso¢ng 122
Joan Kee
Chapter 8 Photography and Scale: Projection, Exhibition, Collection 144
Olivier Lugon
Index 163
