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 scalemdash;both within the American critical tradition and abroadmdash;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 is the second volume in the Terra Foundation Essays series. With eighty color illustrations and a wealth of new research from Glenn Adamson; Wendy Bellion; Wouter Davidts; Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby; Christopher P. Heuer; Joshua G. Stein; and Jason Weems; it explores viewersrsquo; physical relationship to Barnett Newmanrsquo;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.
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