Complete the account of scale.
A measurement in metres is ______, while a relation to the surroundings and to the viewer's body is ______. Enlarging a familiar object makes its ______ visible as such. The property of sculpture most damaged by photographic reproduction is ______.
Word bank: size · scale · form · scale · weight · volume
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- The first pair is the fundamental distinction.
- The last blank repeats an earlier answer deliberately.
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A measurement in metres is size, while a relation to the surroundings and to the viewer's body is scale. Enlarging a familiar object makes its form visible as such. The property of sculpture most damaged by photographic reproduction is scale.
The last blank repeats the second on purpose. A photograph normalises everything to the size of the page, so a miniature and a work you can walk inside arrive identical, which means anything you know about sculpture from images, you know without its scale.
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