Bibliograph

Like life, sculpture, color, and the body, Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Bharti Kher, Jeff Koons, Alison Saar, Hillel Schwartz, Marina Warner, and Fred Wilson

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Label

Like life, sculpture, color, and the body, Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Bharti Kher, Jeff Koons, Alison Saar, Hillel Schwartz, Marina Warner, and Fred Wilson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-293) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Like life

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Oclc number

1002666590

Responsibility statement

Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Bharti Kher, Jeff Koons, Alison Saar, Hillel Schwartz, Marina Warner, and Fred Wilson

Sub title

sculpture, color, and the body

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

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

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