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Title 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 Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, [2008]
©2008

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Description vii, 327 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Contents 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 Portratbildnerei in Wachs," 1910-11) / Julius von Schlosser
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Wax figures.
Wax-modeling -- History.
Author Panzanelli, Roberta.
Schlosser, Julius, Ritter von, 1866-1938.
Schlosser, Julius, Ritter von, 1866-1938. Geschichte der Porträtbildnerei in Wachs. English
LC no. 2007025022
ISBN 9780892368778 (hardcover)
0892368772 (hardcover)