Download Ephemeral Bodies PDF Free

Ephemeral Bodies PDF
By:Roberta Panzanelli,Julius Ritter von Schlosser
Published on 2008 by Getty Publications

The 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.

This Book was ranked at 3 by Google Books for keyword Sculpture.

Book ID of Ephemeral Bodies's Books is LmVkL49nvDgC, Book which was written byRoberta Panzanelli,Julius Ritter von Schlosserhave ETAG "YgaypDHG50o"

Book which was published by Getty Publications since 2008 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780892368778 and ISBN 10 Code is 0892368772

Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is true

Book which have "327 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryArt

Book was written in en

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is false

Book Preview

Download Ephemeral Bodies PDF Free

Download Ephemeral Bodies Books Free

Download Ephemeral Bodies Free

Download Ephemeral Bodies PDF

Download Ephemeral Bodies Books