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Like life : sculpture, color, and the body

Title

Like life : sculpture, color, and the body / Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Bharti Kher [and 5 others].

Author

Syson, Luke

Publication

New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]
New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

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Description

xii, 300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 30 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
Essays.
Illustrated works.

Note

"This catalogue is 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."--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

Text in English.

Contents

Embodied Histories / Sheena Wagstaff -- Polychrome and Its Discontents: A History / Luke Syson -- No Dead Matter / Marina Warner -- Double or Nothing / 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 / Emerson Bowyer -- Likeness / Brinda Kumar -- Desire for Life / Emerson Bowyer -- Proxy Figures / Brinda Kumar -- Layered Realities / Brinda Kumar -- Figuring Flesh / Emerson Bowyer -- Between Life and Art / Brinda Kumar -- Notes -- Works in the Exhibition -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JQF 18-634

ISBN

9781588396440
1588396444

LCCN

2018000278

OCLC

1002666590

Author

Syson, Luke, author.

Title

Like life : sculpture, color, and the body / Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Bharti Kher [and 5 others].

Publisher

New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]

Distributor

New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Event

"Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now)" : March 21-July 22, 2018, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States.

Language

Text in English.

Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Wagstaff, Sheena, author.

Bowyer, Emerson, author.

Kumar, Brinda, author.

Kher, Bharti, 1969- writer of supplementary textual content.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, publisher, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-634

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