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This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in
art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth
century. Using case studies from different historical moments and
cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a critical
category and seek to define its specific character in relation to
other forms of artistic appropriation. Several authors explore the
ethical issues raised by spoliation and their implications for the
evaluation and interpretation of new work made with spolia. The
contemporary fascination with spolia is part of a larger cultural
preoccupation with reuse, recycling, appropriation and
re-presentation in the Western world. All of these practices speak
to a desire to make use of pre-existing artifacts (objects, images,
expressions) for contemporary purposes. Several essays in this
volume focus on the distinction between spolia and other forms of
reused objects. While some authors prefer to elide such
distinctions, others insist that spolia entail some form of taking,
often violent, and a diminution of the source from which they are
removed. The book opens with an essay by the scholar most
responsible for the popularity of spolia studies in the later
twentieth century, Arnold Esch, whose seminal article 'Spolien' was
published in 1969. Subsequent essays treat late Roman antiquity,
the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Middle Ages, medieval and
modern attitudes to spolia in Southern Asia, the Italian
Renaissance, the European Enlightenment, modern America, and
contemporary architecture and visual culture.
This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in
art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth
century. Using case studies from different historical moments and
cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a critical
category and seek to define its specific character in relation to
other forms of artistic appropriation. Several authors explore the
ethical issues raised by spoliation and their implications for the
evaluation and interpretation of new work made with spolia. The
contemporary fascination with spolia is part of a larger cultural
preoccupation with reuse, recycling, appropriation and
re-presentation in the Western world. All of these practices speak
to a desire to make use of pre-existing artifacts (objects, images,
expressions) for contemporary purposes. Several essays in this
volume focus on the distinction between spolia and other forms of
reused objects. While some authors prefer to elide such
distinctions, others insist that spolia entail some form of taking,
often violent, and a diminution of the source from which they are
removed. The book opens with an essay by the scholar most
responsible for the popularity of spolia studies in the later
twentieth century, Arnold Esch, whose seminal article 'Spolien' was
published in 1969. Subsequent essays treat late Roman antiquity,
the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Middle Ages, medieval and
modern attitudes to spolia in Southern Asia, the Italian
Renaissance, the European Enlightenment, modern America, and
contemporary architecture and visual culture.
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