MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aNK9580$b.E64 2008
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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 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aWax figures.
650 0 $aWax-modeling$xHistory.
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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