Summary
70
Miniature
Fall 2010
For some time now, art galleries, museums as well artists’ studios have been offering us various types of models and projects that materialize as small-scale forms or “prototypes”—miniature works with a seemingly limited, barely visible field of action. This issue focus on the miniature in contemporary art—minute works, models or modelling. The essays' respective authors propose different expansive readings of these minute constructions, making use of such categories as the playful, the deceptive, and the simulacral.
Editorial
Feature
Jordi Colomer, Nicolas Moulin, Wilfrid Almendra: Three Miniaturizations of Modernist Architecture
Small Renderings Lack No Breadth of Vision:
The Art of Simulacra in Daniel Corbeil
Miniaturized Excess
Guillaume Lachapelle
Dreamy Wanderings through Heterotopias
The Photography of Alain Laframboise:
Art History’s Wunderkammer
Photographs That Fit in the Hand: Yamamoto Masao
Behind The Scenes:
Performances of Vida Simon
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