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". 
 - vii, 327 pages :  illustrations (some colour) ;  28 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0892368772 9780892368778 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007025022 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Wax figures<br/>Wax-modeling--History<br/>Sculpture--History.<br/>Waxes--History.<br/>Models, Anatomic
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NK9580  / .E64 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>731.82