TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wells,Rachel
TI  - Scale in contemporary sculpture: enlargement, miniaturisation and the life-size 
SN  - 1409431940
AV  - NB1135 .W45 2013
U1  - 735.23 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Farnham, Surrey, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate Publishing,2013
KW  - Sculpture, Modern
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Proportion (Art)
KW  - Composition (Art)
KW  - Young British Artists (Group of artists)
N1  - 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
ER  -