To Scale

This innovative new volume offers an in-depth exploration of scale, one of the most crucial elements in the creation and reception of art.

• Illustrates how scale has compelled audiences to rethink the significance and importance of specific works of art
• Takes a comparative art historical approach exploring issues of scale in an array of forms, from Islamic architecture to contemporary photography
• A global consideration of scale, with examples of work from ancient Egypt, eighteenth-century Korea, and contemporary Europe
• The newest addition to the Art History Special Issue Book Series

Joan Kee is Associate Professor of History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The author of Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method (2013), she has published articles in an array of journals, including Artforum, Art Bulletin, Oxford Art Journal, Third Text, Art Margins and The Journal of Law, Culture and Humanities.

Emanuele Lugli is Lecturer in History of Art and Architecture at the University of York, UK. With articles published in Art History, Gesta and Word & Image, his first book, Unità di Misura: Breve Storia del Metro in Italia (2014) reconstructs the cultural revolution sparked by the arrival of the metric system in nineteenth-century Italy.