To Scale

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.

• 6 Notes on Contributors8 Chapter 1 Scale to Size: An IntroductionJoan Kee and Emanuele Lugli26 Chapter 2 Scale and Pictoriality in Ancient Egyptian Painting and SculptureWhitney Davis44 Chapter 3 The Invisible Miniature: Framing the Soul in Chinese Art and ArchitectureWu Hung62 Chapter 4 The Monumental Miniature: Liquid Architecture in the Kilgas of CairoMargaret S. Graves82 Chapter 5 ‘Freedom I do reveal to you’: Scale, Microarchitecture, and the Rise of the Turriform Civic Monument in Fourteenth-Century Northern EuropeAchim Timmermann104 Chapter 6 Measuring the Bones: On Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Saluzzianus SkeletonEmanuele Lugli122 Chapter 7 The Measure of the World: Scenes From aJourney to Kaesŏng Joan Kee144 Chapter 8 Photography and Scale: Projection, Exhibition, CollectionOlivier Lugon163 Index