Ephemeral bodies : wax sculpture and the human figure /
Panzanelli, Roberta.
Schlosser, Julius,Ritter von,1866-1938.
Schlosser, Julius,Ritter von,1866-1938.Geschichte der Porträtbildnerei in Wachs.English.
Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute,
c2008.
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.
Wax figures.
Wax-modeling