To Scale

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-119-14250-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 270 mm, Gewicht: 588 g

Reihe: Art History Special Issues

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kee, Joan

Lugli, Emanuele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

6 Notes on Contributors

8 Chapter 1 Scale to Size: An Introduction
Joan Kee and Emanuele Lugli

26 Chapter 2 Scale and Pictoriality in Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture
Whitney Davis

44 Chapter 3 The Invisible Miniature: Framing the Soul in Chinese Art and Architecture
Wu Hung

62 Chapter 4 The Monumental Miniature: Liquid Architecture in the Kilgas of Cairo
Margaret S. Graves

82 Chapter 5 ‘Freedom I do reveal to you’: Scale, Microarchitecture, and the Rise of the Turriform Civic Monument in Fourteenth-Century Northern Europe
Achim Timmermann

104 Chapter 6 Measuring the Bones: On Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Saluzzianus Skeleton
Emanuele Lugli

122 Chapter 7 The Measure of the World: Scenes From a
Journey to Kaesong Joan Kee

144 Chapter 8 Photography and Scale: Projection, Exhibition, Collection
Olivier Lugon

163 Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joan Kee is Associate Professor of History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The author of Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method (2013), she has published articles in an array of journals, including Artforum, Art Bulletin, Oxford Art Journal, Third Text, Art Margins and The Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities.

Emanuele Lugli is Lecturer in History of Art and Architecture at the University of York, UK. With articles published in Art History, Gesta and Word & Image, his first book, Unità di Misura: Breve Storia del Metro in Italia (2014) reconstructs the cultural revolution sparked by the arrival of the metric system in nineteenth-century Italy.