The original copy : photography of sculpture, 1839 to today /

By:

Marcoci, Roxana

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Publication details: New York : Museum of Modern Art : c2010.Description: 256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cmISBN:

9780870707575 (hbk.)

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LOC classification:

TR 658 MAR

Contents:

The original copy: photography of sculpture, 1839 to today / Roxana Marcoci

An almost unlimited variety: photography and sculpture in the nineteenth century / Geoffrey Batchen

From sculpture in photography to photography as plastic art / Tobia Bezzola

Plates, with introductions / Roxana Marcoci

I. Sculpture in the age of photography -- II. Eugène Atget: the marvelous in the everyday -- III. Auguste Rodin: The sculptor and the photographic enterprise -- IV. Constantin Brancusi: The studio as Groupe Mobile and the Photos Radieuses -- V. Marcel Duchamp's Box in a valise: the readymade as reproduction -- VI. Cultural and political icons -- VII. The studio without walls: sculpture in the expanded field -- VIII. Daguerre's soup: what is sculpture? -- IX. The Pygmalion complex: animate and inanimate figures -- X. The performing body as sculptural object.

Summary: This book examines the rich historical legacy of photography and the aesthetic shifts that have taken place in the medium over the last 170 years. Roxana Marcoci has built on extensive conversations and collaborations with living artists to explore sculpture’s uses within contemporary art practice. She also asks the question, 'What is sculpture?,' tracing it through a selection of 300 pictures that tap on a broad spectrum of expressions, ranging in subject from inanimate objects to the performing human body.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Whitecliffe Library General Shelves	General	TR 658 MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		0012373

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition The original copy: photography of sculpture, 1839 to today, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (August 1-November 1, 2010)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The original copy: photography of sculpture, 1839 to today / Roxana Marcoci

An almost unlimited variety: photography and sculpture in the nineteenth century / Geoffrey Batchen

From sculpture in photography to photography as plastic art / Tobia Bezzola

Plates, with introductions / Roxana Marcoci

This book examines the rich historical legacy of photography and the aesthetic shifts that have taken place in the medium over the last 170 years. Roxana Marcoci has built on extensive conversations and collaborations with living artists to explore sculpture’s uses within contemporary art practice. She also asks the question, 'What is sculpture?,' tracing it through a selection of 300 pictures that tap on a broad spectrum of expressions, ranging in subject from inanimate objects to the performing human body.