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Item Number: 120537
Title: Scale in Contemporary Sculpture : Enlargement, Miniaturisation and the Life-Size
Author: Welles, Rachel
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409431947
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. 24cm., hardcover, 203pp., 60 color illus. Contents: 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. Part 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 Photography, 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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