Publisher's Synopsis
This is a highly original, deft and compelling account of the history of sculpted representations of the human body. Its broad sweep from prehistory to post modernism incorporates both the great achievements of such sculptors as Donatello, Michelangelo, Canova and Brancusi, and those shadier representations of the body which Tom Flynn convincingly identifies as sculpture's doppelganger,from waxworks to cyborgs. Illustrated with over 110 carefully chosen pictures, this is a genuinely important contribution to the general literature of sculpture.
