Catalog of an exhibition held at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, July 26-Nov. 17, 1996 and at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, Dec. 13, 1996-Apr. 6, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index.
In living colour : a short history of colour and sculpture in the 19th century / Andreas Blühm -- Colour, sculpture, mimesis : a 19th-century debate / Wolfgang Drost -- Sculpture colouring and the industries of art in the 19th century / Philip Ward-Jackson -- Under the spell of Madame Tussaud : aspects of 'high' and 'low' in 19th-century polychromed sculpture / Alison Yarrington -- Art for the sake of the soul : polychrome sculpture and literary symbolism / Emmanuelle Héran -- Painter-sculptors and polychromy in the evolution of modernism / June Hargrove