Silent partners : artist and mannequin from function to fetish /
Munro, Jane,author.
Fitzwilliam Museum,host institution.
"This publication accompanies the exhibition SILENT PARTNERS: ARTIST AND MANNEQUIN FROM FUNCTION TO FETISH, organised by The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, on view from 14 October 2014 to 25 January 2015 and at the Musée Bourdelle, Paris, from 31 March 2015 to 12 July 2015"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Some artful instrument': the mannequin as tool -- The 'naturalistic' mannequin: invention, evolution -- Finding the bodies: distribution -- Silent partner -- Wooden narratives: the mannequin in the picture -- Hystériques ! hystériques! Tous hystériques!-Woman mannequinized -- Flesh and bloodlessness -- Artificial others: the mannequin and its kin in fin-de-siècle Paris -- Vivified commodities: Paris and the development of the fashion mannequin -- The assembly line goddess: modern art and the mannequin.
Mannequins (Figures)
Mannequins (Figures) in art