Plaster casts: Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present. Transformationen der Antike ; vol. 18.

Frederiksen, Rune and Eckard Marchand (eds.):

ISBN 10: 3110208563 / ISBN 13: 9783110208566

Editore: Berlin; New York (NY): Walter de Gruyter., 2010

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XII, 752 p. : Ill., graphs. As new and in foil. - Contents: Preface -- RUNE FREDERIKSEN AND ECKART MARCHAND: Introduction -- Antiquity -- RUNE FREDERIKSEN: Plaster Casts in Antiquity -- CHRISTA LANDWEHR: The Baiae Casts and the Uniqueness of Roman Copies -- The Renaissance -- ECKART MARCHAND: Plaster and Plaster Casts in Renaissance Italy -- WALTER CUPPERI: "Giving away the moulds will cause no damage to his Majesty's casts" - New Documents on the Vienna Jüngling and the Sixteenth-Century Dissemination of Casts after the Antique in the Holy Roman Empire -- MARTIN BIDDLE: "Makinge of moldes for the walles" - The Stuccoes of Nonsuch: materials, methods and origins -- Making and Distribution from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century -- CHARLOTTE SCHREITER: "Moulded from the best originals of Rome" - Eighteenth-Century Production and Trade of Plaster Casts after Antique Sculpture in Germany -- JAN ZAHLE: Laocoön in Scandinavia - Uses and Workshops 1587 onwards -- Informationen -- PETER MALONE: How the Smiths Made a Living -- Artists' Academies -- TOMAS MACSOTAY: Plaster Casts and Memory Technique: Nicolas Vleughels' display of cast collections after the antique in the French Academy in Rome (1725-1793) -- CLAUDIA SEDLARZ: Incorporating Antiquity - The Berlin Academy of Arts' Plaster Cast Collection from 1786 until 1815: acquisition, use and interpretation -- ELIZABETH FUENTES ROJAS: Art and Pedagogy in the Plaster Cast Collection of the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City -- Artists' Workshops -- LÉON E. LOCK: Picturing the Use, Collecting and Display of Plaster Casts in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Artists' Studios in Antwerp and Brussels -- JOHANNES MYSSOK: Modern Sculpture in the Making: Antonio Canova and plaster casts -- MATTHEW GREG SULLIVAN: Chantrey and the Original Models -- JEAN-FRANÇOIS CORPATAUX: Live Body Moulding and Maternal Devotion in Marcello's Studio -- SHARON HECKER: Shattering the Mould: Medardo Rosso and the poetics of plaster -- MARIA ELENA VERSARI: "Impressionism Solidified" - Umberto Boccioni's Works in Plaster and the Definition of Modernity in Sculpture -- SUE MALVERN: Outside In: the after-life of the plaster cast in contemporary culture -- JANE MCADAM FREUD: Inside Out: a process for production Conservation -- DANIELA ARNOLD, TORSTEN ARNOLD AND ELISABETH RÜBER-SCHÜTTE: The Plaster Decoration of the Choir Screens in the Church of Our Lady in Halberstadt: a current conservation project -- ÁNGELES SOLÍS PARRA, JUDIT GASCA MlRAMÓN, SILVIA VlANA, SÁNCHEZ AND JOSÉ MARÍA LUZON NOGUÉ: The Restoration of Two Plaster Casts Acquired by Velazquez in the Seventeenth Century: the Hercules and Flora Farnese -- MARIA KLIAFA AND MICHAEL DOULGERIDIS: The Contribution of Plaster Sculptures and Casts to Successful Conservation Interventions at the National Gallery of Greece, Athens -- Architectural Models and Collections after Gems -- VALENTIN KOCKEL: Plaster Models and Plaster Casts of Classical Architecture and its Decoration -- DANIEL GRAEPLER: A Dactyliotheca by James Tassie and Other Collections of Gem Impressions at the University of Göttingen -- CLAUDIA WAGNER AND GERTRUD SEIDMANN: A Munificent Gift: cast collections of gem impressions from the Sir Henry Wellcome Trust -- Casting Nations: The National Museum -- DIANE BILBEY AND MARJORIE TRUSTED: "The Question of Casts" - Collecting and Later Reassessment of the Cast Collections at South Kensington -- MALCOLM BAKER: The Reproductive Continuum: plaster casts, paper mosaics and photographs as complementary modes of reproduction in the nineteenth-century museum -- AXEL GAMPP: Plaster Casts and Postcards: the postcard edition of the Musée de Sculpture Comparée at Paris -- DANA STEHLIKOVÁ: More Valuable than Originals? The Plaster Cast Collection in the National Museum of Prague (1818-2008): its history and predecessors -- TOBIAS BURG: Building a Small Albertinum in Moscow: the correspondence between Georg Treu and Ivan Tsvetaev -- STEPHEN L. DYSON: Cast Coll.

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• Titolo: Plaster casts: Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present. Transformationen der Antike ; vol. 18.
• Editore: Berlin; New York (NY): Walter de Gruyter.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3110208563
• ISBN 13: 9783110208566
• Rilegatura: Hardcover.
• Condizione: Wie neu
• Peso: 1553 grammi
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Antike

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Riassunto

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.

Informazioni sull?autore

Rune Frederiksen, Danish Institute at Athens, Greece; Eckart Marchand, Warburg Institute Archive, London, U.K.