TY - BOOK ID - 32771065 TI - Plaster monuments : architecture and the power of reproduction PY - 2017 SN - 9780691177144 0691177147 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Architectural casts. KW - Art KW - Reproduction KW - Social aspects. KW - Architectural casts KW - Social aspects KW - Museology KW - Conservation. Restoration KW - Architecture KW - Glass KW - monuments KW - copies [derivative objects] KW - 741:72 KW - 72.023 KW - 72.011 KW - 72.036 KW - 691.4 KW - Architectuur ; rmodellen en maquettes in plaaster ; van (onderdelen van) historische gebouwen KW - Architectuur ; 19de eeuw ; belang van reproducties KW - Plaster casts KW - Architectural models KW - Art, Occidental KW - Art, Visual KW - Art, Western (Western countries) KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Visual KW - Fine arts KW - Iconography KW - Occidental art KW - Visual arts KW - Western art (Western countries) KW - Arts KW - Aesthetics KW - Reproduction&delete& KW - Tekenkunst ; architectuurtekeningen ; maquettes ; bouwkundige schaalmodellen KW - Architectuur ; beschikbare materialen KW - Architectuur ; vormgeving, ontwerp, compositie KW - Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 19e eeuw KW - Bouwmaterialen ; leem, klei, aardewerk KW - Art, Primitive KW - Art - Reproduction - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32771065 AB - 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. ER -