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Scale / edited by Jennifer L. Roberts ; with essays by Glenn Adamson and Joshua G. Stein, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Jason Weems, Wouter Davidts, Christopher P. Heuer, and Wendy Bellion.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Terra Foundation essays ; v. 2.
- Terra foundation essays ; Volume 2
- Standardized Title:
- Scale (Terra Foundation for American Art)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, American--Themes, motives.
- Art, American.
- Composition (Art).
- Proportion (Art).
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 pages) : 74 illustrations, map, portraits
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Terra Foundation for American Art, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Scale is perhaps the most spectacularly overlooked aspect of artistic production. As photographic and digital reproductions have essentially dematerialized art, critical and historical research dealing with scale-- both within the American critical tradition and abroad-- has become scattered and insufficiently theorized. However, by posing a specific challenge, such research forces a heightened recognition of both the properties of materials and the deep technical knowledge of makers. A reconsideration of scalar relationships in American art and visual culture therefore reveals original insights.... Scale explores viewers' physical relationship to Barnett Newman's abstract canvases, the arduous engineering behind the creation of Mount Rushmore, and the charged significance of liberty poles in the landscape of eighteenth-century New York, among other topics that range from studies of specific works of art to significant conceptual and theoretical concerns"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Imprints: Scale and the Maker's Trace / Glenn Adamson and Joshua G. Stein
- Blow-Up: Photographice Projection, Dynamite, and the Sculpting of American Mountains / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
- Scale, a Slaughterhouse View: Industry, Corporeality, and Being in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago / Jason Weems
- "As Pointless as a Yard Rule": Barnett Newman and the Scale of Art / Wouter Davidts
- Arctic Matters in Early America / Christopher P. Heuer
- Mast Trees, Liberty Poles, and the Politics of Scale in Late Colonial New York / Wendy Bellion.
- Notes:
- Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on June 8, 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780300256833
- 0300256833
- OCLC:
- 948669380
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