"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.
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:
"The exhibition and book were conceived by Roxana Marcoci ... who organized them around distinct conceptual ideas. Examining the rich historical legacy of photography, and the aesthetic shifts that have taken place in the medium over the last 170 years, she also built on extensive conversations and collaborations with living artists to explore its uses within contemporary art practice. At the same time she asked the question, 'What is sculpture?,' tracing it through a selection of 300 outstanding pictures that tap on a broad spectrum of expressions, ranging in subject from inanimate objects to the performing human body. The Original Copy incorporates impressive groups of works by many key figures of modernist and avant-garde art"--P. 7.
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