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.
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Wax-modeling -- History.
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Author |
Panzanelli, Roberta.
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Schlosser, Julius, Ritter von, 1866-1938.
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Schlosser, Julius, Ritter von, 1866-1938.
Geschichte der Porträtbildnerei in Wachs. English
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LC no. |
2007025022 |
ISBN |
9780892368778 (hardcover) |
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0892368772 (hardcover) |
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