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Plaster Monuments : Architecture and the Power of Reproduction / Mari Lending.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 48 color + 73 b/w illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691239620
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 702.8/72 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Monuments in Flux -- Chapter 1 Travels in the Province of Reproductions -- Chapter 2 Trocadéro: Proust’s Museum -- Chapter 3 The Poetics of Plaster -- Chapter 4 Cablegrams and Monuments -- Chapter 5 The Yale Battle of the Casts: Albers vs. Rudolph -- Coda Lost Continents, Fluctuating Objects -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustration Credits
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 understood today.Plaster Monuments unsettles conventional thinking about copies and originals. As Mari Lending shows, the casts were used to restore wholeness to buildings that in reality lay in ruin, or to isolate specific features of monuments to illustrate what was typical of a particular building, style, or era. Arranged in galleries and published in exhibition catalogues, these often enormous objects were staged to suggest the sweep of history, synthesizing structures from vastly different regions and time periods into coherent narratives. While architectural plaster casts fell out of fashion after World War I, Lending brings the story into the twentieth century, showing how Paul Rudolph incorporated historical casts into the design for the Yale Art and Architecture building, completed in 1963.Drawing from a broad archive of models, exhibitions, catalogues, and writings from architects, explorers, archaeologists, curators, novelists, and artists, Plaster Monuments tells the fascinating story of a premodernist aesthetic and presents a new way of thinking about history’s artifacts.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Monuments in Flux -- Chapter 1 Travels in the Province of Reproductions -- Chapter 2 Trocadéro: Proust’s Museum -- Chapter 3 The Poetics of Plaster -- Chapter 4 Cablegrams and Monuments -- Chapter 5 The Yale Battle of the Casts: Albers vs. Rudolph -- Coda Lost Continents, Fluctuating Objects -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Illustration Credits

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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 understood today.Plaster Monuments unsettles conventional thinking about copies and originals. As Mari Lending shows, the casts were used to restore wholeness to buildings that in reality lay in ruin, or to isolate specific features of monuments to illustrate what was typical of a particular building, style, or era. Arranged in galleries and published in exhibition catalogues, these often enormous objects were staged to suggest the sweep of history, synthesizing structures from vastly different regions and time periods into coherent narratives. While architectural plaster casts fell out of fashion after World War I, Lending brings the story into the twentieth century, showing how Paul Rudolph incorporated historical casts into the design for the Yale Art and Architecture building, completed in 1963.Drawing from a broad archive of models, exhibitions, catalogues, and writings from architects, explorers, archaeologists, curators, novelists, and artists, Plaster Monuments tells the fascinating story of a premodernist aesthetic and presents a new way of thinking about history’s artifacts.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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