MEDAL SCALE THEORY

THE BODYtheory

The theory is that medals are also variously imagined as medallions, tokens, talismans, trophies, rewards, status  symbols, time markers and sometime quite simply as objects of private contemplation. 

Medals, are typically a metal disc typically of the size of a large coin and bearing an inscription or design, made to commemorate an event or awarded as a distinction to someone such as a soldier or athlete. Yet there is a primordial aspect to these objects of cultural production and seemingly their 'body scale' is at least a subliminal impedrative.

It is generally accepted that the modern commemorative medal, in both form and content, was invented by the Italian painter Antonio Pisano (c. 1395–1455), called Pisanello. His first medal portrayed the Byzantine emperor John VIII Palaeologus and was made in 1438–39.

Then again that is 'a Western cultural imagining' and this idea needs fleshing out. Granting primacy to 'Western Cultural Perceptions' in the 21st C comes with 'cultural cargo'  .... WATCH THIS SPACE ... A WORK IN PROGRESS