Like life : sculpture, color, and the body / Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, and Brinda Kumar ; with contributions by Bharti Kher [and 5 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Syson, Luke, author.

Wagstaff, Sheena, author.

Bowyer, Emerson, author.

Kumar, Brinda, author.

Contributor:

Kher, Bharti, 1969- writer of supplementary textual content.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Figure sculpture--Exhibitions.

Figure sculpture.

Human figure in art--Exhibitions.

Human figure in art.

Color in art--Exhibitions.

Color in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

312 pages

Distribution:

New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press.

Place of Publication:

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]

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.

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781588396440

1588396444

OCLC:

1030275491