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245 00 $aEphemeral bodies :$bwax sculpture and the human figure /$cedited by Roberta Panzanelli ; with a translation of Julius von Schlosser's "History of portraiture in wax".
260 $aLos Angeles, Calif. :$bGetty Research Institute,$cc2008.
300 $avii, 327 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c28 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction : the body in wax, the body of wax / Roberta Panzanelli --$tCompelling presence : wax effigies in Renaissance Florence /$rRoberta Panzanelli --$tWax fibers, wax bodies, and moving figures : artifice and nature in eighteenth-century anatomy /$rJoan B. Landes --$tAlmost alive : the spectacle of verisimilitude in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks /$rUta Kornmeier --$tOn waxes and wombs : eighteenth-century representations of the Gravid Uterus /$rLyle Massey --$tWax tokens of libido : William Hamilton, Richard Payne Knight, and the Phalli of Isernia /$rWhitney Davis --$tFleeting revelations : the demise of duration in Medardo Rosso's wax sculpture /$rSharon Hecker --$tViscosities and survivals : art history put to the test by the material /$rGeorges Didi-Huberman --$gAppendix :$tHistory of portraiture in wax ("Geschichte der Porträtbildnerai in Wachs" 1910-11) /$rJulius von Schlosser.
520 $aThe material history of wax is a history of disappearance--wax melts, liquefies, evaporates, and undergoes innumerable mutations. Wax is tactile, ambiguous, and mesmerizing, confounding viewers and scholars alike. It can approximate flesh with astonishing realism and has been used to create uncanny human simulacra since ancient times--from phallic amulets offered to heal distressing conditions and life-size votive images crammed inside candlelit churches by the faithful, to exquisitely detailed anatomical specimens used for training doctors and Medardo Rosso's "melting" portraits. The critical history of wax, however, is fraught with gaps and controversies. After Giorgio Vasari, the subject of wax sculpture was abandoned by art historians; in the twentieth century it once again sparked intellectual interest, only soon to vanish. The authors of the eight essays in Ephemeral Bodies--including the first English translation of Julius von Schlosser's seminal "History of Portraiture in Wax" (1910-11)--break new ground as they explore wax reproductions of the body or body parts and assess their conceptual ambiguity, material impermanence, and implications for the history of Western art.
650 0 $aWax figures.
650 0 $aWax-modeling$xHistory.
650 12 $aModels, Anatomic.
650 22 $aSculpture$xhistory.
650 22 $aWaxes$xhistory.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
700 1 $aPanzanelli, Roberta.
700 1 $aSchlosser, Julius,$cRitter von,$d1866-1938.
700 12 $aSchlosser, Julius,$cRitter von,$d1866-1938.$tGeschichte der Porträtbildnerei in Wachs.$lEnglish.
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