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"
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- Author
- Panzanelli, Roberta
- Schlosser, Julius Ritter von 1866-1938
- Schlosser, Julius Ritter von 1866-1938 Geschichte der Porträtbildnerei in Wachs English
- 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
- 2008
- C2008
- Type
- Books
- Physical description
- vii, 327 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- Wax figures
- Wax-modeling--History
- Record ID
- siris_sil_904749
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0