{"product_id":"gravity-in-art-mary-d-edwards-9780786465743","title":"Gravity in Art: Essays on Weight and Weightlessness in Painting, Sculpture and Photography","description":"\u003cp\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInferno\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 expressively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The 26 essays examine these opposing forces through analysis of such dualities as ascent and descent, weight and weightlessness, hope and despair, or life and death, and draw distinct lines between the works of art and texts of such writers and thinkers as Homer, Aristotle, Newton, Marx and Einstein. Together, they demonstrate that as our ideas about this essential force or space-time concept change, so too, do artists create new ways to represent visually the phenomenon of gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary D. Edwards\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0786465743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780786465743\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McFarland \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/17\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Mary D. Edwards","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47202671591679,"sku":"9780786465743","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_171ff343-b6e4-4d7b-b577-a5fc2f61718f.jpg?v=1756833059","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gravity-in-art-mary-d-edwards-9780786465743","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}