Facing the other
Subtitle: Charles Cordier (1827-1905), ethnographic sculptor
By: Laure de Margerie, Édouard Papet ; with contributions by Christine Barthe and Maria Vigli ; translated from the French by Lenora Ammon, Laurel Hirsch, and Clare Palmieri
Contributors: Margerie, Laure de; Papet, Édouard; Barthe, Christine; Vigli, Maria; Musée d'Orsay; Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec; Dahesh Museum of Art
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Cordier, Charles, -- 1827-1905 -- Exhibitions; Cordier, Charles, -- 1827-1905 -- Catalogues raisonnés; Figure sculpture, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions; Polychromy -- France -- Exhibitions; Ethnic groups in art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions; Catalogues raisonnés
Work titles: Charles Cordier, 1827-1905.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Feb. 2-May 2, 2004, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, June 10-Sept. 6, 2004, and Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 12, 2004-Jan. 9, 2005

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-249)  and indexes
Table of contents: title: "The most beautiful Negro is not the one who looks most like us," Cordier, 1862 / Laure de Margerie; title: "To have the courage of his conviction to polychromy" : Charles Cordier and the sculpture of the Second Empire / Édouard Papet; title: The polychromy techniques of Charles Cordier / Édouard Papet; title: The trip to Greece, April to November 1858 / Édouard Papet and Maria Vigli; title: Models and norms : the relationship between ethnographic photographs and sculptures / Christine Barthe; title: Ethnographic life casts in the nineteenth century / Édouard Papet; title: Chronology / Laure de Margerie; title: Catalogue raisonné / Jeannine Durand-Révillon (1929-1999) and Laure de Margerie; title: Works in the exhibition; title: Works by Charles Cordier exhibited between 1848 and 1906 / Laure de Margerie