The dream of the moving statue

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The dream of the moving statue

Kenneth Gross

Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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We live among the images we have made, and those images have an uncanny life. They seduce, challenge, trap, transform, and even kill us; they speak and remain silent. Kenneth Gross's The Dream of the Moving Statue offers a far-ranging and probing exploration of how writers, artists, and filmmakers have imagined the power and life of statues, real and metaphoric, taking up examples from antiquity to modernity, from Ovid, Michelangelo, and Shakespeare to Freud, Rilke, and Charlie Chaplin. The book is about the fate of works of art and about the fate of our fantasies, words, and bodies, about the metamorphoses they undergo in our own and others' minds.

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Contents Illustrations Preface to the 2006 paperback edition Preface to the 1992 edition Part I 1. Signs of Life: An Introduction 2. The Death of Sculpture 3. Eating the Statue Part II 4. Idolomachia 5. You May Touch This Statue 6. Resisting Pygmalion Part III 7. Crossings 8. The Space Between Part IV 9. Talking with Statues 10. The Thing Itself (Which Does Not Move) Coda: Ordinary Statues Notes Index

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