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Like Life

Sculpture, Color, and the Body

By: Luke Syson,Sheena Wagstaff,Emerson Bowyer,Brinda Kumar

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Like Life

Sculpture, Color, and the Body

By: Luke Syson,Sheena Wagstaff,Emerson Bowyer,Brinda Kumar

Since before the myth of Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have used sculpture to explore the physical materiality of the body. This groundbreaking volume examines key sculptural works from thirteenth-century Europe to the global present, revealing new insights into the strategies artists deploy to blur the distinction between art and life. Three-dimensional renderings of the human figure are presented here in numerous manifestations, created by artists ranging from Donatello and Edgar Degas to Kiki Smith and Jeff Koons. Featuring works created in media both traditional and unexpected—such as glass, leather, and blood—Like Life presents sculpture by turns conventional and shocking, including effigies, dolls, mannequins, automata, waxworks, and anatomical models. Texts by curators and cultural historians as well as contemporary artists complete this provocative exploration of realistic representations of the human body. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana}

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314

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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ISBN 10

1588396444

ISBN 13

9781588396440

Objects of Virtue

Art in Renaissance Italy

By: Luke Syson,Dora Thornton

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Objects of Virtue

Art in Renaissance Italy

By: Luke Syson,Dora Thornton

You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and "character" was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly illustrated volume examines the complicated relationships between the so-called "fine arts"--painting and sculpture--and artifacts of other kinds for which artistry might be as important as utility-furniture, jewelry, and vessels made of gold, silver, and bronze, precious and semi-precious stone, glass, and ceramic. The works discussed were designed and made by artists as famous as Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and Michelangelo, as well as by lesser-known specialists--goldsmiths, gem-engravers, glassmakers, and maiolica painters.

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292

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Getty Publications

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ISBN 10

0892366575

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9780892366576

Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Luke

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

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Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Luke

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

What makes this commentary on Luke stand apart from others is that, from beginning to end, this is a literary analysis. Because it focuses solely on the gospel as it appears and not on its source or origin, this commentary richly and thoroughly explores just what Luke is saying and how he says it.

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495

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Liturgical Press

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ISBN 10

0814683312

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9780814683316

The Gospel of Luke

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

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The Gospel of Luke

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

A Michael Glazier book." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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552

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Liturgical Press

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0814658059

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9780814658055

Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church

The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

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Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church

The Challenge of Luke-Acts to Contemporary Christians

By: Luke Timothy Johnson

In this and every age, the church desperately needs prophecy. It needs the bold proclamation of God’s transforming vision to challenge its very human tendency toward expediency and self-interest — to jolt it into new insight and energy. For Luke Timothy Johnson, the New Testament books Luke and Acts provide that much-needed jolt to conventional norms. To read Luke-Acts as a literary unit, he says, is to uncover a startling prophetic vision of Jesus and the church — and an ongoing call for today’s church to embody and proclaim God’s vision for the world.

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207

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467419419

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9781467419413

Book's by Luke Syson

Like Life

Like Life

Objects of Virtue

Objects of Virtue

Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Luke

Sacra Pagina: The Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke

Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church

Prophetic Jesus, Prophetic Church

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