EAN: 9783110751314

DESTROY THE COPY - PLASTER CAST COLLECTIONS IN ...

Based on two international conferences held at Cornell University and the Freie Universität of
Berlin in 2010 and 2015  this volume is the first ever to explicitly address the destruction of
plaster cast collections of ancient Mediterranean and Western sculpture. Focusing on Europe 
the Americas  and Japan  art historians  archaeologists and a literary scholar discuss how
different museum and academic traditions - national as well as disciplinary -  notions of value
and authenticity  or colonialism impacted the fate of collections. The texts offer detailed
documentation of degrees of destruction by spectacular acts of defacement  demolition 
discarding  or neglect. They also shed light on the accompanying discourses regarding aesthetic
ideals  political ideologies  educational and scholarly practices  or race. With destruction
being understood as a critical part of reception  the histories of cast collections defy the
traditional  homogenous narrative of rise and decline. Their diverse histories provide critical
evidence for rethinking the use and display of plaster cast collections in the contemporary
moment.

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