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Title:

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".

Publisher:

Getty Research Institute,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

vii, 327 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Wax figures.
Wax-modeling--History.
Models, Anatomic.
Sculpture--history.
Waxes--history.

Other Authors:

Panzanelli, Roberta.
Schlosser, Julius, Ritter von, 1866-1938.
Schlosser, Julius, Ritter von, 1866-1938. Geschichte der Porträtbildnerei in Wachs. English.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Appendix : History of portraiture in wax ("Geschichte der Porträtbildnerai in Wachs" 1910-11) / Julius von Schlosser. 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.

ISBN:

0892368772 (hardcover)
9780892368778 (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)145396521

LCCN:

2007025022

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)