The Pygmalion Effect
From Ovid to Hitchcock
by Victor I. Stoichita
252 pages· 2008· ISBN 9780226775210
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Pygmalion's sculpture, which the gods endowed with life, marks, according to this book, perhaps the first instance in Western art of an image that exists on its own terms, rather than simply imitating something else. Stoichita delivers this image and its avatars from the shadow cast by art that merely replicates reality.
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