Screen LibraryPlaster monuments : architecture and the power of reproduction /
We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require our protection and preservation. The nineteenth century, however, saw this issue differently. In a culture of reproduction, plaster casts of building f...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require our protection and preservation. The nineteenth century, however, saw this issue differently. In a culture of reproduction, plaster casts of building fragments and architectural features were sold throughout Europe and America and proudly displayed in leading museums. The first comprehensive history of these full-scale replicas, Plaster Monuments examines how they were produced, marketed, sold, and displayed, and how their significance can be un |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [264]-274) and index. |
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9780691177144 (hardcover : alkaline paper) : 0691177147 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | NA2005 |
| CLC: | G263-05 |
| Call Number: | G263-05/L564 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Monuments in flux -- Travels in the province of reproductions -- Trocadero: Proust's museum -- The poetics of plaster -- Cablegrams and monuments -- The Yale battle of casts: Albers vs. Rudolph -- Coda: Lost continents, fluctuating objects. |