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Sharon Hecker, Roberta Panzanelli, Roberta Panzanelli, Uta Kornmeier, Georges Didi-Huberman, Joan B. Landes, Lyle Massey
327 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780892368778
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Publication date: 24 March 2008
Description
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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Sharon Hecker, Roberta Panzanelli, Roberta Panzanelli, Uta Kornmeier, Georges Didi-Huberman, Joan B. Landes, Lyle Massey
327 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780892368778
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Publication date: 24 March 2008
Description
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...