Facing the Other Charles Cordier (1827-1905) Ethnographic Sculptor

by de Margerie, Laure; Papet, Edouard; Barthe, Christine; Vigli, Maria

• ISBN13: 9780810956063
• ISBN10: 0810956063
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Summary

Charles Cordier first captured attention when he exhibited a bust of a Sudanese man at the Paris Salon in 1848, and he soon went on to create a series of spectacularly lifelike busts for the city's National History Museum. One of the few artists of his day to explore the new discipline of anthropology, Cordier often chose Algerians, Egyptians, other Africans, and southern Europeans as his models. This pioneering sculptor is the subject of Facing the Other, a comprehensive survey that includes 600 illustrations and a catalogue raisonne of Cordier's work. In addition to its ethnographic focus, Cordier's work was distinguished by its masterly use of luxurious and colorful marble. This definitive volume brings the work of France's great ethnographic sculptor back into the limelight.

Author Biography

Laure de Margerie is archivist of sculpture at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris Edouard Papet is curator of sculpture at the Musee d'Orsay, Paris Christine Barthe is head of the Photography Collection of the Musee du quai Branly, Paris Maria Vigli is an art historian, specializing in Greek art of the nineteenth century

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(2)
``The Most Beautiful Negro is Not the One Who Looks Most Like Us.'' ---Cordier, 1862	13	(38)
Laure de Margerie
``To have the Courage of his Polychromy'': Charles Cordier and the Sculpture of The Second Empire	51	(32)
Edouard Papet
The Polychromy Techniques of Charles Cordier	83	(4)
Edouard Papet
The Trip to Greece, April to November 1858	87	(6)
Edouard Papet
Maria Vigli
Models and Norms: The Relationship Between Ethnographic Photographs and Sculptures	93	(34)
Christine Barthe
Ethnographic Life Casts in the Nineteenth Century	127	(2)
Edouard Papet
Chronology	129	(14)
Laure de Margerie
Catalogue Raisonne	143	(80)
Jeannine Durand-Revillon
Laure de Margerie
Works in the Exhibition	223	(6)
Works by Charles Cordier Exhibited Between 1848 and 1906	229	(10)
Laure de Margerie
Bibliography	239	(11)
Index	250