Gravity in Art - Essays on Weight and Weightlessness in Painting, Sculpture and Photography (Paperback)

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 explores 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, 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 phenomena of gravity.

General

Imprint:	McFarland & Company
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	July 2012
Editors:	Mary D Edwards • Elizabeth Bailey
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	364
ISBN-13:	978-0-7864-6574-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7864-6574-3
Barcode:	9780786465743

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