Edwards, Mary D.

Gravity in Art

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ISBN 13:: 9780786465743
author:: Edwards, Mary D.
format:: Paperback
publisher:: McFarland
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2012
Pages:: 364
Genre:: Art, Criticism
Condition:: New
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Gravity in Art: Essays on Weight and Weightlessness in Painting, Sculpture and Photography

This collection of 26 essays explores how artists from antiquity to today use gravity and levity symbolically, metaphorically, and expressively. Through analysis of dualities such as ascent and descent, weight and weightlessness, hope and despair, or life and death, the book examines the ways in which artists represent visually the phenomenon of gravity.

The essays draw distinct lines between the works of art and texts of writers and thinkers such as Homer, Aristotle, Newton, Marx and Einstein, demonstrating how changing ideas about gravity have led to new ways of representing it in art. This thought-provoking book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the relationship between art and the natural world.

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