Wells, Rachel, <br/><br/>
Scale in contemporary sculpture :  enlargement, miniaturisation and the life-size / 
Rachel Wells. 
 - xv, 203 pages, 60 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (chiefly colour) ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1409431940 9781409431947 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2012001649 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sculpture, Modern--Philosophy<br/>Proportion (Art)<br/>Composition (Art)<br/>Young British Artists (Group of artists)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NB1135  / .W45 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>735.23