Panzanelli Roberta Editor (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Softcover in illustrated glossy wraps. First edition. Published to accompany a 2008 exhibition of the same name at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu, CA. Book is like new, clean, crisp, unmarked, unused. Lush color plates throughout. 4to 186 pp. including biographical references and index.

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.

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.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. (2008). 4to. Good, clean textblock. Slight soiling and wear to edges of gently rubbed cloth covered boards with faint marking along joints. Light bumping and wear to edges, forecorners, and spine ends of gently rubbed and faintly scratched dust jacket. VG/VG.