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Plaster Casts - Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover)
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Plaster Casts - Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover)
Series: Transformationen der Antike
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This volume originates from an international conference (Oxford
University, 2007). Texts address plaster casts and related themes
from antiquity to the present day, and from Egypt to America,
Mexico and New Zealand. They are of interest to classical
archaeologists, art historians, the history of collecting,
curators, conservators, collectors and artists. Articles explore
the functions, status and reception of plaster casts in artists'
workshops and in private and public collections, as well as
hands-on issues, such as the making, trading, display and
conservation of plaster casts. Case-studies on artists' use of
material and technique include ancient Roman copyists, Renaissance
sculptors and painters, Dutch 17th-century workshops, Canova,
Boccioni and others. A second theme is the role of plaster casts in
the history of collecting from the Renaissance to the present day.
Several papers address the dissemination of visual ideas, models
and ideals through the medium. Papers on modern and contemporary
art illuminate the changing uses and semantic values of plaster
casts in this period. Amongst the types of casts discussed are
artists' models and final works as well as casts after antiquities,
including sculpture, architecture and gems (dactyliothecae). The
volume demonstrates the richness of the field, both in terms of the
material itself and modern scholarship concerned with it. Conceived
as a handbook for students, academics, curators and collectors, the
text will form a standard work on the role of plaster casts in the
history of Western sculpture.
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