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Author:
Hersey, George L.
Title:
Falling in love with statues : artificial humans from Pygmalion to the present / George Hersey.
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press,
Copyright Date:
2009
Description:
188 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.
Subject:
Love--Mythology.
Mythology, Greek.
Ovid,--43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.--Metamorphoses.
Pygmalion (Greek mythology)
Galatea, statue brought to life (Greek mythology)
Statues in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-180) and index.
Contents:
The island goddesses -- Cyprus, cypress, copper, Cypris -- Cypris the sculptor -- Beautiful bodies -- Ovid and tactility -- Demons and deliverance -- New races of automata -- The primacy of artificial humans.
ISBN:
0226327795 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226327792 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)267044264
LCCN:
2008043594
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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