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To Scale

Joan Kee (Edited by), J Kee (Author), Emanuele Lugli (Edited by)

9781119142508, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 4 March 2016

176 pages
27.7 x 21.1 x 1.1 cm, 0.608 kg

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

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 Kaesŏng Joan Kee

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

163 Index

Subject Areas: History of art / art & design styles [AC]
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