Facing the other : Charles Cordier (1827-1905), ethnographic sculptor / 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.

Author/creator Cordier, Charles
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Harry N. Abrams, 2004.
Description255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Other author/creatorMargerie, Laure de.
Other author/creatorPapet, Édouard.
Other author/creatorBarthe, Christine.
Other author/creatorVigli, Maria.
Other author/creatorMusée d'Orsay.
Other author/creatorMusée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Other author/creatorDahesh Museum of Art.
Uniform titleCharles Cordier, 1827-1905. English
Contents "The most beautiful Negro is not the one who looks most like us," Cordier, 1862 / Laure de Margerie -- "To have the courage of his conviction to polychromy" : Charles Cordier and the sculpture of the Second Empire / Idouard Papet -- The polychromy techniques of Charles Cordier / Idouard Papet -- The trip to Greece, April to November 1858 / Idouard Papet and Maria Vigli -- Models and norms, the to-and-fro between ethnographic photographs and sculptures / Christine Barthe -- Ethnographic model casting in the nineteenth century / Idouard Papet -- Chronology / Laure de Margerie -- Catalogue raisonné / Jeannine Durand-Rivillon and Laure de Margerie -- Exhibition checklist -- Works by Charles Cordier exhibited between 1848 and 1906 / Laure de Margerie.
General noteCatalog of an exhibition 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-249) and indexes.
LCCN 2004014875
ISBN0810956063 (hardcover)

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