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• Title:Like life : sculpture, color, and the body / Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Bharti Kher [and 5 others].
  
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• Author/Creator:Syson, Luke, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Wagstaff, Sheena, author.
  Bowyer, Emerson, author.
  Kumar, Brinda, author.
  Kher, Bharti, 1969- writer of supplementary textual content.
  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, publisher, host institution.
  
• Published/Created:New York, New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]
  New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
  

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  • Call Number: NB1930 .L545 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Figure sculpture--Exhibitions.
  Human figure in art--Exhibitions.
  Color in art--Exhibitions.
  
• Genre/Form:Exhibition catalogs.
  Essays.
  Illustrated works.
  
• Description:xii, 300 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:"This catalogue is published in conjunction with 'Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now),' on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 21 through July 22, 2018."--Title page verso.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  "Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now)" : March 21-July 22, 2018, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States.
  Text in English.
  
• ISBN:9781588396440 hardcover
  1588396444 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Embodied Histories / Sheena Wagstaff
  Polychrome and Its Discontents: A History / Luke Syson
  No Dead Matter / Marina Warner
  Double Or Nothing / Hillel Schwartz
  Material Histories
  Sensuality of Impermanence / Bharti Kher
  Material Wisdom / Alison Saar
  Object Histories / Fred Wilson
  Democratizing Material / Jeff Koons
  Presumption of White / Emerson Bowyer
  Catalogue 1-14
  Likeness / Brinda Kumar
  Catalogue 15-35
  Desire for Life / Emerson Bowyer
  Catalogue 36-52
  Proxy Figures / Brinda Kumar
  Catalogue 53-67
  Layered Realities / Brinda Kumar
  Catalogue 68-80
  Figuring Flesh / Emerson Bowyer
  Catalogue 81-109
  Between Life and Art / Brinda Kumar
  Catalogue 110-17.