Plaster Monuments
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Plaster Monuments
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Author : Mari Lending
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-06-14
Plaster Monuments written by Mari Lending and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with Architecture categories.
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.
Plaster Casts
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Author : Rune Frederiksen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2010-09-27
Plaster Casts written by Rune Frederiksen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-27 with Art categories.
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.
Historical Architectural Surfaces
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Author : International Council on Monuments and Sites. Deutsches Nationalkomitee
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Historical Architectural Surfaces written by International Council on Monuments and Sites. Deutsches Nationalkomitee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Building materials categories.
Tennessee Civil War Monuments
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Author : Timothy S. Sedore
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-10
Tennessee Civil War Monuments written by Timothy S. Sedore and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-10 with Travel categories.
“A superb guide to 400 statues, columns, reliefs, and other components of the state’s commemorative landscape.” —Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Union War Throughout Tennessee, Civil War monuments stand tall across the landscape, from Chattanooga to Memphis, and recall important events and figures within the Volunteer State’s military history. In Tennessee Civil War Monuments, Timothy S. Sedore reveals the state’s history-laden landscape through the lens of its many lasting monuments. War monuments have been cropping up since the beginning of the commemoration movement in 1863, and Tennessee is now home to four hundred memorials. Not only does Sedore provide commentary for every monument—its history and aesthetic panache—he also explores the relationships that Tennessee natives have with these historic landmarks. A detailed exploration of the monuments that enrich this Civil War landscape, Sedore’s Tennessee Civil War Monuments is a guide to Tennessee’s spirit and heritage.
From Monuments To Traces
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Author : Rudy Koshar
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000-07-18
From Monuments To Traces written by Rudy Koshar and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-18 with History categories.
Koshar argues that in Germany, memory landscapes have taken shape according to four separate paradigms - the national monument, the ruin, the reconstruction, and the trace - which he analyzes in relation to the changing political agendas that have guided them over time."--BOOK JACKET.
Pioneer Mother Monuments
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Author : Cynthia Culver Prescott
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2019-04-04
Pioneer Mother Monuments written by Cynthia Culver Prescott and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-04 with Art categories.
For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today, the images they depict—sturdy white men, saintly mothers, and wholesome pioneer families—enshrine prevailing notions of American exceptionalism, race relations, and gender identity. Pioneer Mother Monuments is the first book to delve into the long and complex history of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering pioneer monuments. In this book, historian Cynthia Culver Prescott combines visual analysis with a close reading of primary-source documents. Examining some two hundred monuments erected in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the present, Prescott begins her survey by focusing on the earliest pioneer statues, which celebrated the strong white men who settled—and conquered—the West. By the 1930s, she explains, when gender roles began shifting, new monuments came forth to honor the Pioneer Mother. The angelic woman in a sunbonnet, armed with a rifle or a Bible as she carried civilization forward—an iconic figure—resonated particularly with Mormon audiences. While interest in these traditional monuments began to wane in the postwar period, according to Prescott, a new wave of pioneer monuments emerged in smaller communities during the late twentieth century. Inspired by rural nostalgia, these statues helped promote heritage tourism. In recent years, Americans have engaged in heated debates about Confederate Civil War monuments and their implicit racism. Should these statues be removed or reinterpreted? Far less attention, however, has been paid to pioneer monuments, which, Prescott argues, also enshrine white cultural superiority—as well as gender stereotypes. Only a few western communities have reexamined these values and erected statues with more inclusive imagery. Blending western history, visual culture, and memory studies, Prescott’s pathbreaking analysis is enhanced by a rich selection of color and black-and-white photographs depicting the statues along with detailed maps that chronologically chart the emergence of pioneer monuments.
Paris Its Sites Monuments And History
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Author : Maria Hornor Lansdale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Paris Its Sites Monuments And History written by Maria Hornor Lansdale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Paris (France) categories.
The Everyday Life Of Memorials
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Author : Andrew M. Shanken
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-04
The Everyday Life Of Memorials written by Andrew M. Shanken and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-04 with Architecture categories.
A timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary—and oftentimes unseen—lives of memorials Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just as often, they are understood as sites of political contestation, where people battle over the meaning of events. But most of the time, they are neither. Instead, they take their rest as ordinary objects, part of the street furniture of urban life. Most memorials are “turned on” only on special days, such as Memorial Day, or at heated moments, as in August 2017, when the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville was overtaken by a political maelstrom. The rest of the time they are turned off. This book is about the everyday life of memorials. It explores their relationship to the pulses of daily life, their meaning within this quotidian context, and their place within the development of modern cities. Through Andrew Shanken’s close historical readings of memorials, both well-known and obscure, two distinct strands of scholarship are thus brought together: the study of the everyday and memory studies. From the introduction of modern memorials in the wake of the French Revolution through the recent destruction of Confederate monuments, memorials have oscillated between the everyday and the “not-everyday.” In fact, memorials have been implicated in the very structure of these categories. The Everyday Life of Memorials explores how memorials end up where they are, grow invisible, fight with traffic, get moved, are assembled into memorial zones, and are drawn anew into commemorations and political maelstroms that their original sponsors never could have imagined. Finally, exploring how people behave at memorials and what memorials ask of people reveals just how strange the commemorative infrastructure of modernity is.
Plaster Casts
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Author : Florentine Art Plaster Co., Philadelphia, Pa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
Plaster Casts written by Florentine Art Plaster Co., Philadelphia, Pa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with Plaster casts categories.
Irish Church Monuments 1570 1880
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Author : Homan Potterton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Irish Church Monuments 1570 1880 written by Homan Potterton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Church buildings categories.