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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".

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: vii, 327 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0892368772
  • 9780892368778
Contained works:
  • Schlosser, Julius, Ritter von, 1866-1938. Geschichte der Porträtbildnerei in Wachs. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 731.82 22
LOC classification:
  • NK9580 .E64 2008
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 Porträtbildnerai in Wachs" 1910-11) / Julius von Schlosser.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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