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In 2024 a tourist in Florence climbed a bronze statue of Bacchus and hugged him, and the city held meetings about it. People have been drawn to statues, mannequins and dolls for as long as there have been statues, mannequins and dolls.
This book follows that pull from Pygmalion through Kokoschka's life-size doll of Alma Mahler and department-store windows to today's doll makers. It argues the attraction isn't simply to someone who can't say no. It's to stillness itself, and the old story about the statue waiting to come alive gets it wrong.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (148 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.
In 2024 a tourist in Florence climbed a bronze statue of Bacchus and hugged him, and the city held meetings about it. People have been drawn to statues, mannequins and dolls for as long as there have been statues, mannequins and dolls.
This book follows that pull from Pygmalion through Kokoschka's life-size doll of Alma Mahler and department-store windows to today's doll makers. It argues the attraction isn't simply to someone who can't say no. It's to stillness itself, and the old story about the statue waiting to come alive gets it wrong.
What you get: a ZIP file containing the book as a PDF (148 pages) and an EPUB, so you can read it on a computer, tablet or e-reader.