Like life : sculpture, color, and the body
Luke Syson (Writer of added commentary), Sheena Wagstaff (Writer of added commentary), Emerson Bowyer (Writer of added commentary), Brinda Kumar (Writer of added commentary), Bharti Kher (Contributor), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (Issuing body, Publisher, Host institution)
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
Print Book, English, 2018
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, 2018