Gravity in Art: Essays on Weight and Weightlessness in Painting, Sculpture and Photography

by Elizabeth Bailey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786465743
• ISBN13: 9780786465743
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher