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Scale in Contemporary Sculpture

Scale in Contemporary Sculpture

Enlargement, Miniaturisation and the Life-Size

by Rachel Wells
Hardback
Publication Date: 17/01/2013

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The first book to devote serious attention to questions of scale in contemporary sculpture, this study considers the phenomenon within the interlinked cultural and socio-historical framework of the legacies of postmodern theory and the growth of global capitalism. In particular, the book traces the impact of postmodern theory on concepts of measurement and exaggeration, and analyses the relationship between this philosophy and the sculptural trend that has developed since the early 1990s. Rachel Wells examines the arresting international trend of sculpture exploring scale, including American precedents from the 1970s and 1980s and work by the 'Young British Artists'. Noting that the emergence of this sculptural trend coincides with the end of the Cold War, Wells suggests a similarity between the quantitative ratio of scale and the growth of global capitalism that has replaced the former status quo of qualitatively opposed systems. This study also claims the allegorical nature of scale in contemporary sculpture, outlining its potential for critique or complicity in a system dominated by quantitative criteria of value. In a period characterised by uncertainty and incommensurability, Wells demonstrates that scale in contemporary sculpture can suggest the possibility of, and even an unashamed reliance upon, comparison and external difference in the construction of meaning.
ISBN:
9781409431947
9781409431947
Category:
Sculpture
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
17-01-2013
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
284
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x23mm
Weight:
0.75kg
Rachel Wells

Rachel Wells is a mother, writer and cat lover. She lives in Devon with her family and her pets and believes in the magic of animals.

Rachel grew up in Devon but lived in London in her twenties working in marketing and living in a tiny flat with an elderly rescued cat, Albert. After having a child she moved back to Devon and decided to take the plunge and juggle motherhood with writing.

She has always wanted to write and now has found her voice in her first novel, Alfie the Doorstep Cat. She has always had cats as pets, ever since a young child. Rachel is delighted to have been able to combine her two main passions at last.

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