Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure by Sharon Hecker, Roberta Panzanelli, Roberta Panzanelli, Uta Kornmeier, Georges Didi-Huberman, Joan B. Landes, Lyle Massey
Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure

Sharon Hecker, Roberta Panzanelli, Roberta Panzanelli, Uta Kornmeier, Georges Didi-Huberman, Joan B. Landes, Lyle Massey

327 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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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 ast...

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