Like life : sculpture, color, and the body /

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, revea...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kher, Bharti, 1969- (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]
Subjects:	Figure sculpture > Exhibitions. Human figure in art > Exhibitions. Trompe l'oeil painting > Exhibitions. Color in art > Exhibitions. Sculpture de figures humaines > Expositions. Corps humain dans l'art > Expositions. Couleurs dans l'art > Expositions. Trompe l'oeil painting. Color in art. Figure sculpture. Human figure in art. Mensch > Motiv. Plastik. Essays. Exhibition catalogs. Illustrated works.

Table of 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.