Ephermeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure

by Sharon Hecker, Georges Didi-Huberman, Roberta Panzanelli, et al.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892368772
• ISBN13: 9780892368778
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 327 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.8" x 10.7"