Reuse value : spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine / edited by Richard Brilliant and Dale Kinney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brilliant, Richard.

Kinney, Dale.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and history.

Building materials--Recycling.

Building materials.

Precious stones--Recycling.

Precious stones.

Appropriation (Architecture).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Spolia and appropriation in art and architecture, from Constantine to Sherrie Levine

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction / Dale Kinney

On the reuse of antiquity : the perspectives of the archaeologist and of the historian / Arnold Esch

Reading spolia in late antiquity and contemporary perception / Paolo Liverani

The use of older elements in the architecture of fourth-and fifth-century Rome : a contribution to the evaluation of spolia / Hugo Brandenburg

Spolia : a definition in ruins / Michael Greenhalgh

Ancient gems in the Middle Ages : riches and ready-mades / Dale Kinney

Appropriation as inscription : making history in the first Friday Mosque of Delhi Finbarr / Barry Flood

Renaissance spolia and Renaissance antiquity (one neighborhood, three cases) / Michael Koortbojian

Authenticity and alienation / Richard Brilliant

The building's body : spolia as supplement, substitution, destruction / Annabel J. Wharton

A medieval monument and its modern myths of iconoclasm : the enduring contestations over the Qutb Complex in Delhi / Mrinalini Rajagopalan

Spolia in contemporary architecture : searching for ornament and place / Hans-Rudolf Meier

Some thoughts about the significance of postmodern appropriation art / Donald Kuspit

Epilogue / Richard Brilliant.

Notes:

"An Ashgate book"--Cover.

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4094-8684-2

1-317-06379-1

1-317-06378-3

1-315-60618-6

1-283-29750-7

9786613297501

1-4094-3518-0

9781315606187

OCLC:

759807179