Like Life - Sculpture, Color, and the Body (Hardcover)

Explores how artists from the European Renaissance to the global present have used sculpture and color to evoke the presence of the living 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, 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.

General

Imprint:	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Metropolitan Museum of Art (MAA) (YUP)
Release date:	April 2018
Authors:	Luke Syson • Sheena Wagstaff • Emerson Bowyer • Brinda Kumar • Schwartz Hillel • Barti Kher
Dimensions:	299 x 214 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-1-58839-644-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Sculpture & other three-dimensional art forms > Sculpture Promotions
LSN:	1-58839-644-4
Barcode:	9781588396440

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