Plaster Casts (eBook)

Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present

Rune Frederiksen, Eckart Marchand (Herausgeber)

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2010
764 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-021687-5 (ISBN)

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This volume originates from an international conference held at Oxford University in 2007. Texts by classical archaeologists, art historians, students of the history of collecting, curators, conservators and artists address objects and themes from antiquity to the present day, ancient Egypt to 20th-century Mexico and contemporary Europe. They explore status, reception and functions of casts as well as hands-on issues, such as the making, trading, display and conservation of plaster casts. A handbook for students, academics, curators and collectors, the text will become a standard work on the role of plaster casts in the history of Western sculpture.

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

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

Inhalt

Table of Contents 6
Preface 12
Introduction 14
Antiquity 24
Plaster Casts in Antiquity 26
The Baiae Casts and the Uniqueness of Roman Copies 48
The Renaissance 60
Plaster and Plaster Casts in Renaissance Italy 62
“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 94
“Makinge of moldes for the walles” – The Stuccoes of Nonsuch: materials, methods and origins 112
Making and Distribution from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century 132
“Moulded from the best originals of Rome” – Eighteenth- Century Production and Trade of Plaster Casts after Antique Sculpture in Germany 134
Laocoön in Scandinavia – Uses and Workshops 1587 onwards 156
How the Smiths Made a Living 176
Artists’ Academies 192
Plaster Casts and Memory Technique: Nicolas Vleughels’ display of cast collections after the antique in the French Academy in Rome ( 1725– 1793) 194
Incorporating Antiquity – The Berlin Academy of Arts’ Plaster Cast Collection from 1786 until 1815: acquisition, use and interpretation 210
Art and Pedagogy in the Plaster Cast Collection of the Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City 242
Artists’ Workshops 262
Picturing the Use, Collecting and Display of Plaster Casts in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Artists’ Studios in Antwerp and Brussels 264
Modern Sculpture in the Making: Antonio Canova and plaster casts 282
Chantrey and the Original Models 302
Live Body Moulding and Maternal Devotion in Marcello’s Studio 320
Shattering the Mould: Medardo Rosso and the poetics of plaster 332
“Impressionism Solidified” – Umberto Boccioni’s Works in Plaster and the Definition of Modernity in Sculpture 344
Outside In: the after-life of the plaster cast in contemporary culture 364
Inside Out: a process for production 372
Conservation 380
The Plaster Decoration of the Choir Screens in the Church of Our Lady in Halberstadt: a current conservation project 382
The Restoration of Two Plaster Casts Acquired by Velázquez in the Seventeenth Century: the Hercules and Flora Farnese 398
The Contribution of Plaster Sculptures and Casts to Successful Conservation Interventions at the National Gallery of Greece, Athens 416
Architectural Models and Collections after Gems 430
Plaster Models and Plaster Casts of Classical Architecture and its Decoration 432
A Dactyliotheca by James Tassie and Other Collections of Gem Impressions at the University of Göttingen 448
A Munificent Gift: cast collections of gem impressions from the Sir Henry Wellcome Trust 464
Casting Nations: The National Museum 476
“The Question of Casts” – Collecting and Later Reassessment of the Cast Collections at South Kensington 478
The Reproductive Continuum: plaster casts, paper mosaics and photographs as complementary modes of reproduction in the nineteenth- century museum 498
Plaster Casts and Postcards: the postcard edition of the Musée de Sculpture Comparée at Paris 514
More Valuable than Originals? The Plaster Cast Collection in the National Museum of Prague ( 1818– 2008): its history and predecessors 532
Building a Small Albertinum in Moscow: the correspondence between Georg Treu and Ivan Tsvetaev 552
Cast Collecting in the United States 570
Colonial Contexts: the changing meanings of the cast collection of the Auckland War Memorial Museum 590
Display and the Future of Plaster Casts 608
Sir John Soane’s Casts as Part of his Academy of Architecture at 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields 610
The Museum as a Manifesto of Taste and Ideology: the twentieth- century plaster cast collection of archaeology and art at the University of Padua 624
Living with Plaster Casts 640
Le jardin des plâtres: un autre regard sur les collections de moulages The Garden of Plaster Casts: a different view on cast collections 648
List of Contributors 664
List of Figures 672
List of Colour Plates 698
Colour Plates 704
Index of Names and Places 740
Subject index 758

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"Insgesamt bietet der vorliegende, sehr lesenwerte Tagungsband einen umfangreichen Einblick in aktuelle Fragestellungen und Forschungen vor allem zu historischen Gipsabguss-Sammlungen, aber auch zum künstlerischen Umgang mit dem Material Gips."
Astrid Fendt in: H-ArtHist, 15.02.2011

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.9.2010
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Transformationen der Antike
• Reihe/Serie: Transformationen der Antike
• Zusatzinfo: 339 b/w and 39 col. ill., 32 color plates
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Gipsabguss • Griechenland <Altertum> • Moulage • Plaster cast • Plastik • Römisches Reich • sculpture • Skulptur
• ISBN-10: 3-11-021687-6 / 3110216876
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-021687-5 / 9783110216875