Figurines : figuration and the sense of scale /
Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always potentiall...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Visual conversations in art and archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Richard Neer
- Introduction / Jaś Elsner
- 1. Small wonders : Figurines, puppets, and the aesthetics of scale in Archaic and Classical Greece / Richard Neer
- 2. Shifting scales at La Venta / Claudia Brittenham
- 3. Thinking through scale : The First Emperor's sculptural enterprise / Wu Hung
- 4. The death of the figurine : Reflections on an Abrahamic abstention / Jaś Elsner
- Epilogue / Claudia Brittenham.