Scale in contemporary sculpture : enlargement, miniaturisation and the life-size / Rachel Wells.
Material type: TextPublisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing,2013, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: xv, 203 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1409431940
- 9781409431947
- 735.23 23
- NB1135 .W45 2013
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 735.23 WEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A480648B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface; Part 1 Defining Scale: The distinction between size and scale; Measuring scale: recent approaches; The role of the body in the perception of scale. Part 2 Miniaturisation and Enlargement: Scale, exaggeration and postmodernism; Precedents; Scale and 'young British artists'; Global scale: distance and perspective; Continuing exaggerations of scale. Par 3 The Life Size: To scale: the life-size as an address of the qualitative; Measuring the life size; The life size and mapping the real. Part 4 Photograph Sculpture and Scale: Photography of the life-size; Photography as a disguise of scale; Scale and digitisation. Part 5 Conclusion: Scale and metaphor; The sculptural trend as allegory; Bibliography; Index.
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