<p>Since before the myth of Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have used sculpture to explore the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works from thirteenth-century Europe to the global present, revealing new insights into the strategies artists deploy to blur the distinction between art and life. Three-dimensional renderings of the human figure are presented here in numerous manifestations, created by artists ranging from Donatello and Edgar Degas to Kiki Smith and Jeff Koons. Featuring works created in media both traditional and unexpected&amp;mdash;such as glass, leather, and blood&amp;mdash;<i>Like Life</i> presents sculpture by turns conventional and shocking, including effigies, dolls, mannequins, automata, waxworks, and anatomical models. Texts by curators and cultural historians as well as contemporary artists complete this provocative exploration of realistic representations of the human body.</p> p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

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Like Life

Publisher

Metropolitan Museum of Art

ISBN

1588396444

Language

en

Release

2018-03-19

Pages

312

Categories

Art / Sculpture & Installation

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Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, Brinda Kumar

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