Like life : sculpture, color, and the body

Resource Information

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Label

Like life : sculpture, color, and the body

Title remainder

sculpture, color, and the body

Statement of responsibility

Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Bharti Kher [and 5 others]

Contributor

• Kher, Bharti, 1969-
• Kumar, Brinda,
• Wagstaff, Sheena,
• Syson, Luke,
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),
• Bowyer, Emerson,

Contributor

• Kher, Bharti, 1969-

Host institution

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),

Issuing body

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),

Publisher

• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),

Writer of added commentary

• Wagstaff, Sheena,
• Syson, Luke,
• Kumar, Brinda,
• Bowyer, Emerson,

Subject

• Exhibition catalogs
• Figure sculpture
• Figure sculpture -- Exhibitions
• Human figure in art
• Human figure in art -- Exhibitions
• Illustrated works
• Illustrated works
• Mensch
• Plastik
• Trompe l'oeil painting
• Trompe l'oeil painting -- Exhibitions
• Color in art
• Color in art -- Exhibitions
• Essays
• Essays
• Exhibition catalogs

Genre

• Essays
• Illustrated works
• Exhibitions
• Exhibition catalogs

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

NNFr/DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

NB1930

LC item number

.S97 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• bibliography
• catalogs

Target audience

general