The Dream of the Moving Statue /

The Dream of the Moving Statue / / Kenneth Gross.

The fantasy of a sculpture that moves, speaks;or responds, a statue that comes to life as an oracle, lover, avenger, mocker, or monster—few images are more familiar or seductive. The living statue appears in ancient creation narratives, the myths of Pygmalion and Don Juan, lyric poetry from the Gree...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Gross, Kenneth,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1992
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 16 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • PART ONE
  • 1. Signs of Life: An Introduction
  • 2. The Death of Sculpture
  • 3. Eating the Statue
  • PART TWO
  • 4. Idolomachia
  • 5. You May Touch This Statue
  • 6. Resisting Pygmalion
  • PART THREE
  • 7. Crossings
  • 8. The Space Between
  • PART FOUR
  • 9. Talking with Statues
  • 10.The Thing Itself (Which Does Not Move)
  • Coda: Ordinary Statues
  • Notes
  • Index

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