Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
Syson, Luke, and Wagstaff, Sheena, and Bowyer,Emerson, and Kumar, Brinda (Curated by)
Language: English
Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, New York and New Haven, CT, 2018
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Pictorial boards, xii, 300 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Published in conjunction with "Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now)," on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 21 through July 22, 2018. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "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. *** CONTENTS: Embodied Histories, by Sheena Wagstaff; Polychrome and Its Discontents: A History, by Luke Syson; No Dead Matter, by Marina Warner; Double or Nothing, by Hillel Schwartz; Material Histories. Bharti Kher: The Sensuality of Impermanence; Alison Saar: Material Wisdom; Fred Wilson: Object Histories; Jeff Koons: Democratizing Material; The Presumption of White, by Emerson Bowyer; Likeness, by Brinda Kumar; Desire for Life, by Emerson Bowyer; Proxy Figures, by Brinda Kumar; Layered Realities, by Brinda Kumar; Figuring Flesh, by Emerson Bowyer; Between Life and Art, by Brinda Kumar; Notes; Works in the Exhibition; Selected Bibliography; Index. Size: 4to. …
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- Title
- Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body
- Author
- Syson, Luke, and Wagstaff, Sheena, and Bowyer,Emerson, and Kumar, Brinda (Curated by)
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, New York and New Haven, CT
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Fine
- Book Type
- Collectible
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1588396444
- ISBN 13
- 9781588396440
- Edition
- 1st.
- Seller catalogs
- Genre & Subject::Figure & Nudes, Media::Sculpture, New Books, USA::7. Contemporary, 2000-, XXX::COLLECTIBLES, XXXL: Jumbo
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.
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The Met Breuer
(03/21/18–07/22/18)
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