Microworlds

by Marc Wahli, Margherita Dessanay, Marc Valli

This book reveals how all kinds of visual artists (contemporary artists, street artists, photographers and even product designers) are using miniatures and miniaturized worlds in order to create startling situations and memorable images. Miniatures and miniaturized settings induce a disquieting experience of distance, and artists use it to explore very contemporary feelings of alienation, displacement and estrangement. But if seeing things from a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1856697878
• ISBN13: 9781856697873
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Laurence King
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 8.0"