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Published by Getty Research Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
Seller: My November Guest Books, Beaver falls, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback copyright 2008; first edition; VG in VG dj; 327 pages MBR-BC.
Published by Getty Research Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
Seller: Byrd Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: very good. In Used Condition.
Published by Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
Seller: Arty Bees Books, Wellington, New Zealand
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Maroon boards with black titles on spine. There is some wear to the boards, particularly to spine ends. Binding is tight. No inscriptions or markings. Dust jacket has some creasing and edge-wear. This is a heavy book so please check postage with bookseller. 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.
Published by Los Angeles : Getty Publishing, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
Seller: Antiquariat Rohde, Hamburg, Germany
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Pp. Condition: Sehr gut. 327 Seiten ; Ill. ; Sprache: Englisch sehr guter Zustand, wirkt ungelesen, leichte Lagerspuren am Schutzumschlag, Einbandecken minimal bestoßen, Vorsatz leicht lichtrandig und mit Bleistiftnotiz Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1340.
Published by Getty Research Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: very good. Used.
Published by Getty Research Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
Seller: Amatoria Fine Art Books, IOBA, CALIBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, 8vo, 10 3/4" x 7 3/4." Red-brown paper-covered boards in a black paper dust jacket. White lettering on dust jacket spine. Covers have slight wear to edges and tips, else pristine and intact, binding tight. Dust jacket has minuscule rubbing, else pristine and intact. Dust jacket protected in a paper-backed mylar sleeve. Pages pristine and intact. Replete with illustrations, 40 in color, 87 in halftone. 327 pp., including illustrations and Index. Monograph about wax sculptures of human figures. Includes an English translation of Julius von Schlosser's "History of Portraiture in Wax." Edited by Roberta Panzanelli. Heavy and oversized items may require additional shipping.
Published by Getty Research Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
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Published by Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Calif, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
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Hardcover. Condition: VG, dj shows minor wear. Mylar covered pictorial dj; maroon convers. (vii), 327 pages : illustrations (some color). 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. Contents as follows: 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.
Published by J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
Seller: Il Mondo Nuovo, TORINO, TO, Italy
Book First Edition
Rilegato. Condition: ottimo. Dust Jacket Condition: buono. prima edizione. pp. 328.
Published by Getty Research Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
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Published by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
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Published by Getty Research Institute, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
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Published by Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2008
ISBN 10: 0892368772ISBN 13: 9780892368778
Seller: Frank Martignon Bookseller, Atlanta, GA, GA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Introduction by the Editor: The Body in Wax, the Body of Wax. Contains seven essays, each with their own notes, plus the first English translation of Julius von Schlosser's seminal work History Of Wax Portraiture. Includes 40 color and 87 halftone illustrations. Biographical Notes on the Contributors. Index. 326 pp, plus10 Plates. Fine Hardcover w/ Fine dj.