Ephemeral bodies , c2008
- Title(s):
Ephemeral bodies : wax sculpture and the human figure / edited by Roberta Panzanelli ; with a translation of Julius von Schlosser's History of portraiture in wax.
- Published/Created:
- Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, c2008.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 327 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNK9580 .E64 2008 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- Related Content:
- Table of contents only
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject Terms:
- Wax figures.Wax-modeling -- History.
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- Introduction: the body in wax, the body of wax / Roberta Panzanelli
- Compelling presence: wax effigies in Renaissance Florence / Roberta Panzanelli
- Wax fibers, wax bodies, and moving figures: artifice and nature in eighteenth-century anatomy / Joan B. Landes
- Almost alive: the spectacle of verisimilitude in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks / Uta Kornmeier
- On waxes and wombs: eighteenth-century representations of the Gravid Uterus / Lyle Massey
- Wax tokens of libido: William Hamilton, Richard Payne Knight, and the Phalli of Isernia / Whitney Davis
- Fleeting revelations: the demise of duration in Medardo Rosso's wax sculpture / Sharon Hecker
- Viscosities and survivals: art history put to the test by the material / Georges Didi-Huberman
- Appendix: History of portraiture in wax ("Geschichte der Porträtbildnerai in Wachs" 1910-11 / Julius von Schlosser.