Gravity in art : essays on weight and weightlessness in painting, sculpture and photography / edited by Mary D. Edwards and Elizabeth Bailey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwards, Mary D., editor.

Bailey, Elizabeth, 1952- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gravity in art.

Physical Description:

viii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2012]

Summary:

"This collection examines the ways artists from antiquity to today use gravity and/or levity symbolically, metaphorically, and expressively. The 26 essays examine these opposing forces through analysis of such dualities as ascent and descent, weight and weightlessness, hope and despair, or life and death. They demonstrate artists' new ways to represent visually the phenomenon of gravity"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Ancient Through Nineteenth-Century Art

The Flight of Icarus in the House of the Priest Amandus in Pompeii / Bettina Bergmann Bergmann, Bettina 13

Levitating Gods and Dream Imagery on Roman Coinage / Constantin A. Marinescu Marinescu, Constantin A. 22

Succumbing to Gravity in the Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenbourg / Elizabeth Bailey Bailey, Elizabeth 35

Descent, Elevation and Ascent: Oppositional Forces in the Strozzi di Mantova Chapel / Kathleen Giles Arthur Arthur, Kathleen Giles 50

Altichiero, Giotto, Dante and the Metaphorical Use of Gravity and Levity / Mary D. Edwards Edwards, Mary D. 72

The Floating Book: A Reading of Saint Dominic's Miraculous Book in Italian Art in the Late Thirteenth through the Early Fifteenth Centuries / Elizabeth Bailey Bailey, Elizabeth 86

Leaps of Faith in the Portinari Altarpiece of Hugo van der Goes / Mary D. Edwards Edwards, Mary D. 107

The Idea of Weightlessness in Girolamo da Carpi's Kairos and Penitentia (Opportunity and Penitence) / Martina Pfleger Hesser Hesser, Martina Pfleger 119

Erotic Fallout in Bernini's Apollo and Daphne / Perry Brooks Brooks, Perry 126

The Suspension of Gravity in Giandomenico Tiepolo's Punchinelli on a Swing / Johanna Fassl Fassl, Johanna 137

An Uplifting Finale for Jacques-Louis David: Coming to Peace with Mars Disarmed / Katie Hanson Hanson, Katie 147

Mind Over Matter: Levitation and the Defiance of Nature in Late Nineteenth-Century Painting / Sarah Lippert Lippert, Sarah 163

Perilous Flight: Icarus' Transgression of Masculinity / Jongwoo Jeremy Kim Kim, Jongwoo Jeremy 181

Part 2 Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Art

The Joy of Breathing: Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Uplift in the Art of Arthur B. Davies / Robin Veder Veder, Robin 198

Gravitace, or Gravity in the Social and Artistic Thought of Bohumil Kubišta / Eleanor F. Moseman Moseman, Eleanor F. 212

Joseph Cornell's Universe: Gravity's Attractions / Kirsten Hoving Hoving, Kirsten 235

Pipe Dreams: In Search of an Allegorical Magritte / Sandra Zalman Zalman, Sandra 243

Falling to Heaven: Salvador Dali, Marcel Pages and Levity at "the Centre of the Universe" / Elliott H. King King, Elliott H. 253

"The Effort of the Dance": Gravity and Levity in the Poured Paintings of Jackson Pollock / Elizabeth L. Langhorne Langhorne, Elizabeth L. 265

Piero Manzoni's Socle du Monde / Gregory Tentler Tentler, Gregory 277

Gravity and the Grave: Jasper Johns and the Metaphorics of the Fall / Isabelle Loring Wallace Wallace, Isabelle Loring 283

From Vertigo to Ethereality in Environmental Art / Matthew Kolodziej Kolodziej, Matthew 293

Falling Bodies and the Problem of Remembrance: Eric Fischl's Tumbling Woman / Adrienne Posner Posner, Adrienne 304

AA Branson's Hanged Man: Martyrdom, Ambiguity, and Abu Ghraib / Andrea D. Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick, Andrea D. 314

Photographic Moments Inside of Gravity: Kerry Skarbakka's Struggle to Right Himself / Corey Dzenko Dzenko, Corey 326

Mariko Mori and Pipilotti Rist: Reflections on the "New Levity" in Art / Elizabeth Bailey Bailey, Elizabeth 338.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780786465743

0786465743

OCLC:

757461928