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Title: GRAVITY IN ART
ESSAYS ON WEIGHT AND WEIGHTLESSNESS IN PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY
By: Elizabeth Bailey (Editor), Mary D. Edwards (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0786465743
ISBN 13: 9780786465743
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Publisher: MCFARLAND & CO INC
Pub. date: 30 April, 2012
Pages: 363
Synopsis: The gravitational pull of the earth and the challenge to resist it have long inspired artists. Like the Greek vases depicting Sisyphus's endless quest to push his boulder up a hill and the Whirlwind Lovers in Dante's Inferno, images that portray the defiance of gravity or submission to it permeate the artistic world. This collection examines the ways artists from antiquity to today use gravity and 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, and draw distinct lines between the works of art and texts of such writers and thinkers as Homer, Aristotle, Newton, Marx and Einstein. Together, they demonstrate that as our ideas about this essential force or space-time concept change, so too, do artists create new ways to represent visually the phenomenon of gravity.
Illustrations: Illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: McFarland & Co Inc
Returns: Non-returnable
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