Roberta Panzanelli (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ex-library reference copy with single "withdrawn" stamp on title page. No other library markings, stickers or pockets. Moderate wear to dust jacket, mostly along edges, but no tears. Otherwise clean with no underlining or highlighting. Binding is firm. 328 pages. s240.

Condition: Neuf.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Clean pages tightly bound.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback Quarto. wraps, 186 pp Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

paperback. Condition: near fine. First. Color illustrations throughout. 186 pages. 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, (2008). First edition. Corners a touch bumped, still a near fine copy. Contains essays by Vinzenz Brinkman, Jan Stubbe Ostergaard, Marco Collareta and Alex Potts.

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.

Condition: Good. Good++ in a Good++ dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is moderately edgeworn, otherwise is clean and intact with no large edge-tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards with slightly "bumped" edge-corners; All three textblock sides are unblemished; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75" - 10.75" tall); 2.9 lbs; Black dust jacket with photo of wax figure, and title in white lettering; 2008, Getty Research Institute; 336 pages; "Ephemeral Bodies: Wax Sculpture and the Human Figure (Getty)," by Roberta Panzanelli.

hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Acceptable. Dust Jacket NOT present. CD WILL BE MISSING. SHIPS FROM MULTIPLE LOCATIONS. book.

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.

Rilegato. Condition: ottimo. Dust Jacket Condition: buono. prima edizione. pp. 328.

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.