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Like Life - Sculpture, Color, and the Body

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Like Life - Sculpture, Color, and the Body

By Luke Syson, Sheena Wagstaff, Emerson Bowyer, Schwartz Hillel, Brinda Kumar, Barti Kher

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Explores how artists from the European Renaissance to the global present have used sculpture and color to evoke the presence of the living body 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 ...Show more

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9781588396440

Publisher

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published year

2018

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1

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Like Life - Sculpture, Color, and the Body

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Hardcover

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