Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from function to fetish. Jane Munro
In English. Hardcover, 280 pages, 279 x 216 x 25 mm. Yale University Press, October 2014.
Its movable limbs allow the artist to study anatomical proportion, fix a pose at will, and perfect the representation of drapes and clothing. Over the course of the nineteenth century, the mannequin gradually emerged from the studio to become the artist's subject, initially humorously, then in more complex ways, playing with the unsettling psychological presence of a figure that was realistic but unreal--alive but lifeless.
Silent Partners situates the artist's mannequin in the context of an expanding universe of effigies, avatars, puppets and window mannequins. Generously illustrated, this book features works by artists such as Poussin, Gainsborough, Degas, Courbet, Cézanne, Kokoschka, Dalí, Man Ray, and others; The insightful and insightful text examines the variety of responses to the mysterious and highly suggestive potential of the mannequin.
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