To scale /

This innovative new collection provides a comparative survey of issues of scale in a variety of artistic forms, from Islamic architecture to modern photography.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kee, Joan (Editor), Lugli, Emanuele (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, Massachusetts : Wiley Blackwell, an imprint of John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
Series:	Art history special issue book series.
Subjects:	Proportion (Art) Composition (Art) Architecture > Composition, proportion, etc.

Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Scale to Size: An Introduction, Joan Kee and Emanuele Lugli
Chapter 2: Scale and Pictoriality in Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture, Whitney Davis
Chapter 3: The Invisible Miniature: Framing the Soul in Chinese Art and Architecture, Wu Hung
Chapter 4: The Monumental Miniature: Liquid Architecture in the Kilgas of Cairo, Margaret S. Graves
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
Chapter 6: Measuring the Bones: On Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Saluzzianus Skeleton, Emanuele Lugli
Chapter 7: The Measure of the World: Scenes From a Journey to Kaesŏng, Joan Kee
Chapter 8: Photography and Scale: Projection, Exhibition, Collection, Olivier Lugon
Index.