TY  - BOOK
AU  - Panzanelli,Roberta
AU  - Schlosser,Julius von
AU  - Schlosser,Julius
TI  - Ephemeral bodies: wax sculpture and the human figure 
SN  - 0892368772
AV  - NK9580 .E64 2008
U1  - 731.82 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Los Angeles, Calif.
PB  - Getty Research Institute
KW  - Wax figures
KW  - Wax-modeling
KW  - History
KW  - Sculpture
KW  - Waxes
KW  - Models, Anatomic
N1  - 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
ER  -