MUSEUM OR PANOPTICON: A HISTORY OF CREATING WAX FIGURES
Abstract
The article shows the history of the wax portrait theatre as a type of art. Substantial difference between a historically conventional type of exposition in the period when its major development phases were established and the genre of wax portrait in retrospect is explored. An overview is presented covering new achievements in the museum and exposition industry where animatronics, a modern visual technology involving animated figures, has significantly transformed the nature of such a unique type art as wax portrait.
About the Author
I. V. Gоrbunov
Vitebsk State Masherov University, Vitebsk
Belarus
Belarus
Ph. D. (Art. Crit.), Associate Professor
33 Moscow Ave, Vitebsk 210038
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