Plaster casts : making, collecting, and displaying from classical antiquity to the present / edited by Rune Frederiksen and Eckhart Marchand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frederiksen, Rune.

Marchand, Eckart.

Series:

Transformationen der Antike ; Bd. 18.

Transformationen der Antike, 1864-5208 ; Bd. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Congresses.

Antiquities.

Cultural property--Protection--Congresses.

Cultural property.

Plaster casts--Congresses.

Plaster casts.

Sculpture, Ancient--Conservation and restoration--Congresses.

Sculpture, Ancient.

Art, Ancient--Conservation and restoration--Congresses.

Art, Ancient.

Archaeology--Methodology--Congresses.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (764 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction / Frederiksen, Rune / Marchand, Eckart

Antiquity

Plaster Casts in Antiquity / Frederiksen, Rune

The Baiae Casts and the Uniqueness of Roman Copies / Landwehr, Christa

The Renaissance

Plaster and Plaster Casts in Renaissance Italy / Marchand, Eckart

"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 / Cupperi, Walter

"Makinge of moldes for the walles" - The Stuccoes of Nonsuch: materials, methods and origins / Biddle, Martin

Making and Distribution from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

"Moulded from the best originals of Rome" - Eighteenth-Century Production and Trade of Plaster Casts after Antique Sculpture in Germany / Schreiter, Charlotte

Laocoön in Scandinavia - Uses and Workshops 1587 onwards / Zahle, Jan

How the Smiths Made a Living / Malone, Peter

Artists' Academies

Plaster Casts and Memory Technique: Nicolas Vleughels' display of cast collections after the antique in the French Academy in Rome (1725-1793) / Macsotay, Tomas

Incorporating Antiquity - The Berlin Academy of Arts' Plaster Cast Collection from 1786 until 1815: acquisition, use and interpretation / Sedlarz, Claudia

Art and Pedagogy in the Plaster Cast Collection of the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City / Fuentes Rojas, Elizabeth

Artists' Workshops

Picturing the Use, Collecting and Display of Plaster Casts in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Artists' Studios in Antwerp and Brussels / Lock, Léon E.

Modern Sculpture in the Making: Antonio Canova and plaster casts / Myssok, Johannes

Chantrey and the Original Models / Sullivan, Matthew Greg

Live Body Moulding and Maternal Devotion in Marcello's Studio / Corpataux, Jean-François

Shattering the Mould: Medardo Rosso and the poetics of plaster / Hecker, Sharon

"Impressionism Solidified" - Umberto Boccioni's Works in Plaster and the Definition of Modernity in Sculpture / Versari, Maria Elena

Outside In: the after-life of the plaster cast in contemporary culture / Malvern, Sue

Inside Out: a process for production / McAdam Freud, Jane

Conservation

The Plaster Decoration of the Choir Screens in the Church of Our Lady in Halberstadt: a current conservation project / Arnold, Daniela / Arnold, Torsten / Rüber-Schütte, Elisabeth

The Restoration of Two Plaster Casts Acquired by Velázquez in the Seventeenth Century: the Hercules and Flora Farnese / Solís Parra, Ángeles / Gasca Miramón, Judit / Sánchez, Silvia Viana / Luzón Nogué, José María

The Contribution of Plaster Sculptures and Casts to Successful Conservation Interventions at the National Gallery of Greece, Athens / Kliafa, Maria / Doulgeridis, Michael

Architectural Models and Collections after Gems

Plaster Models and Plaster Casts of Classical Architecture and its Decoration / Kockel, Valentin

A Dactyliotheca by James Tassie and Other Collections of Gem Impressions at the University of Göttingen / Graepler, Daniel

A Munificent Gift: cast collections of gem impressions from the Sir Henry Wellcome Trust / Wagner, Claudia / Seidmann, Gertrud

Casting Nations: The National Museum

"The Question of Casts" - Collecting and Later Reassessment of the Cast Collections at South Kensington / Bilbey, Diane / Trusted, Marjorie

The Reproductive Continuum: plaster casts, paper mosaics and photographs as complementary modes of reproduction in the nineteenth-century museum / Baker, Malcolm

Plaster Casts and Postcards: the postcard edition of the Musée de Sculpture Comparée at Paris / Gampp, Axel

More Valuable than Originals? The Plaster Cast Collection in the National Museum of Prague (1818-2008): its history and predecessors / Stehliková, Dana

Building a Small Albertinum in Moscow: the correspondence between Georg Treu and Ivan Tsvetaev / Burg, Tobias

Cast Collecting in the United States / Dyson, Stephen L.

Colonial Contexts: the changing meanings of the cast collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum / Cooke, Ian

Display and the Future of Plaster Casts

Sir John Soane's Casts as Part of his Academy of Architecture at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields / Dorey, Helen

The Museum as a Manifesto of Taste and Ideology: the twentieth-century plaster cast collection of archaeology and art at the University of Padua / Menegazzi, Alessandra

Living with Plaster Casts / Perkins, James

Le jardin des plâtres: un autre regard sur les collections de moulages / van den Driessche, Bernard

Backmatter

Notes:

Papers originating from an international conference of the same name, held at Oxford University, Sept. 23-27, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612884757

9781282884755

1282884751

9783110216875

3110216876

OCLC:

667251927