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  • Perspectives Body in Three Dimensions
  • Written by author Tom Flynn
  • Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1998/03/01
  • Throughout history the human figure has been central to art making, and three dimensional sculpture has played a particularly dramatic role. Sculpture, more than the other arts, may claim to represent reality, as myths about speaking statues and romances
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Introduction: Waxworks, Dolls, and Doppelgangers 7
1 Idols, Myths, and Magic: The Body in Antiquity 21
The Mother Goddess 22
Simplicity and Silence: Cycladic Sculpture 24
Xoana: Aniconic Idols 25
Kalos thanatos: The Beautiful Death 28
Artemis, "Lady of the Beasts" 30
Sophrosyne and Self-knowledge 33
Perfection Through Numbers 36
"An inescapable delight for the vision" 37
2 The Body Re-born: The Middle Ages 45
The Body Emerges 47
Mary the Mediator 50
Opening the Body 56
The Body in Perspective 58
Donatello: Ancient into Modern 60
3 The Apotheosis of the Body: Mannerism and Baroque 67
Surface and Structure: The Body Flayed 68
Laocoon: The Body Unearthed 72
Cellini: Eight Views of the Body 74
The Unfolding Narrative 76
Polychromy: The Painter's Hand 78
Mystical Visions: The Body in Ecstasy 83
4 The Sublime Body: The Eighteenth Century 91
Falconet: The Triumph of the Moderns 93
Noble Simplicity: Antiquity Revived 94
Collecting the Past 97
Illumination and Enlightenment 102
Quatremere de Quincy: Polychromy Reassessed 104
Neo-classicism in the United States 105
An Unsuitable Job for a Woman 106
Monuments and Men: The Body in Public 109
5 The Body in Colour: The Nineteenth Century 115
"The Warmth of Life": Colour and Controversy 116
Waxworks and Auto-icons 119
Minerva in France 122
The Legacy of Michelangelo 124
The Primitive and the Prurient 125
The New Sculpture: An English Renaissance 127
Crafting the Body: Gilbert, Gerome, Klinger 128
Rodin: The Unity of Fragments 132
6 Abjection and Assemblage: The Body in the Twentieth Century 137
Expanding Horizons 139
Welcome to the Machine 141
Space as a Sculptural Element 145
Dream, Reality: Surreality 146
Surface and Structure 149
Truth in Refuse: The Body Assembled 152
Disturbing Identity: The Abject and the Uncanny 156
Body and Self 158
Conclusion 162
Timeline 164
Bibliography 168
Picture Credits 172
Index 173


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