Gravity in art : essays on weight and weightlessness in painting, sculpture and photography / edited by Mary D. Edwards and Elizabeth Bailey.
"This collection examines the ways artists from antiquity to today use gravity and/or levity symbolically, metaphorically, and expressively. The 26 essays examine these opposing forces through analysis of such dualities as ascent and descent, weight and weightlessness, hope and despair, or life...
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Table of Contents:
- The flight of Icarus in the house of the Priest Amandus in Pompeii / Bettina Bergmann
- Levitating gods and dream imagery on Roman coinage / Constantin A. Marinescu
- Succumbing to gravity in the Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenbourg / Elizabeth Bailey
- Descent, elevation and ascent: oppositional forces in the Strozzi di Matova Chapel / Kathleen Giles Arthur
- Altichiero, Giotto, Dante and the metaphorical use of gravitiy and levity / Mary D. Edwards
- The floating book: a reading of Saint Dominic's Miraculous Book in Italian art in the late thirteenth through the early fifteenth centuries / Elizabeth Bailey
- Leaps of faith in the Portinari Altarpiece of Hugo van der Goes / Mary D. Edwards
- The idea of weightlessness in Girolamo da Capri's Kairos and Penitentia (Opportunity and penitence) / Martina Pfleger Hesser
- Erotic fallout in Bernini's Apollo and Daphne / Perry Brooks
- The suspension of gravity in Giandomenico Tiepolo's Punchinelli on a swing / Johanna Fassl
- An uplifting finale for Jacques-Louis David: coming to peace with Mars Disarmed / Katie Hanson
- Mind over matter: levitation and the defiance of nature in late nineteenth-century painting / Sarah Lippert
- Perilous flight: Icarus' transgression of masculinity / Jongwood Jeremy Kim
- The joy of breathing: physical, emotional, and spiritual uplift in the art of Arthur B. Davies / Robin Veder
- Gravitace, or gravity in the social and artistic thought of Bohumil Kubista / Eleanor F. Moseman
- Joseph Cornell's universe: gravity's attractions / Kirsten Hoving
- Pipe dreams: in search of an allegorical Magritte / Sandra Zalman
- Falling to heaven: Salvador Dali, marcel Pages and levity at "the Centre of the Universe" / Elliott H. King
- "The effort of the dance": gravity and levity in the poured paintings of Jackson Pollock / Elizabeth L. Langhorne
- Piero Manzoni's Socle du Monde / Gregory Tentler
- Gravity and the grave: Jasper Johns and the Metaphorics of the fall / Isabelle Loring Wallace
- From vertigo to ethereality in environmental art / Matthew Kolodziej
- Falling bodies and the problem of remembrance: Eric Fischl's Tumbling Woman / Adrienne Posner
- AA Bronson's Hanged Man: martyrdom, ambiguity, and Abu Ghraib / Andrea D. Fitzpatrick
- Photographic moments inside of gravity: Kerry Skarbakka's Struggle to Right Himself / Corey Dzenko
- Mariko Mori and Pipilotti Rist: reflections on the "new levity" in art / Elizabeth Bailey.