Description

Silent Partners locates the artist’s mannequin within the context of an expanding universe of effigies, avatars, dolls, and shop window dummies. Generously illustrated, this book features works by such artists Poussin, Gainsborough, Degas, Courbet, Cezanne, Kokoschka, Dali, Man Ray, and others: the astute, perceptive text examines their range of responses to the uncanny and highly suggestive potential of the mannequin.

Author Jane Munro is a curator at the Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum and director of studies in history of art at Christ’s College at the University of Cambridge.

Catalogue size: 29 x 23 cms, 280 pages with 220 colour and 50 b/w illustrations.