Destroy the Copy - Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th-20th Centuries
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Destroy the Copy - Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th-20th Centuries

Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and Beyond

Herausgegeben: Alexandridis, Annetta; Winkler-Horacek, Lorenz
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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 destruct...