BOOK

Like life : sculpture, color, and the body

Syson, Luke. Polychrome and its discontents, Wagstaff, Sheena. Embodied histories, Bowyer, Emerson. Presumption of white, Kumar, Brinda. Likeness, Kher, Bharti, 1969- Sensuality of impermanence, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution

2018

Overview

Since the earliest myths of the sculptor Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have explored the boundaries between sculpture and the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works from 13th-century Europe to the global present, revealing new insights into the strategies artists deploy to blur the distinction between art and life. Sculpture, which has historically taken the human figure as its subject, is presented here in myriad manifestations created by artists ranging from Donatello and Degas to Picasso, Kiki Smith, and Jeff Koons. Featuring works created in traditional media such as wood and marble as well as the unexpected such as wax, metal, and blood, Like Life presents sculpture both conventional and shocking, including effigies, dolls, mannequins, automata, waxworks, and anatomical models. Containing texts by art and cultural historians as well as interviews with contemporary artists, this is a provocative exploration of three-dimensional representations of the human body.

• Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,Distributed by Yale University Press
• Subject: Figure sculpture Exhibitions. / Human figure in art Exhibitions. / Polychromy Exhibitions.
• ISBN: 9781588396440

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
NB1930.L545 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE