Figurines : figuration and the sense of scale / edited by Jas Elsner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elsner, Jaś, editor.

Series:

Visual conversations in art and archaeology.

Visual conversations in art and archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Figurines, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 192 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

As touchable objects, figurines have potential for a potent agency in relation to those who use them. This volume considers the figurine as a key conceptual and material problematic in the art history of antiquity through comparative juxtaposition and deep art-historical engagement with Chinese, pre-Columbian Mesoamerican, and Greco-Roman cultures.

Contents:

Small wonders: figurines, puppets, and the aesthetics of scale in archaic and classical Greece / Richard Neer

Shifting scales at La Venta / Claudia Brittenham

Thinking through scale: the first Emperor's sculptural enterprise / Wu Hung

The death of the figurine: reflections on an Abrahamic abstention / Jaś Elsner.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-189306-4

0-19-260528-3

0-19-260529-1