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52-5130 NK6214 2014-12674 CIP Munro, Jane. Silent partners: artist and mannequin from function to fetish. Fitzwilliam Museum/Yale, 2014. 275p bibl index ISBN 9780300208221 cloth, $65.00
Easily overlooked, lay figures ranging from abstract articulated forms to highly realistic fashion mannequins served as important props in artists' studios. Live models and photographs replaced mannequins in the 19th century; early-20th-century surrealists promoted them as...