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"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"--Publisher's description.

Architectural casts. --- Art --- Reproduction --- Social aspects. --- Aestheticism. --- Alabaster. --- Alexander Liberman. --- Ancient art. --- Ancient monument. --- Archaeology. --- Architecture. --- Art history. --- Artificial ruins. --- Ashurnasirpal II. --- Assyrian sculpture. --- Baptistery. --- Barry Bergdoll. --- Beaux-Arts architecture. --- Belvedere Torso. --- Black Mountain College. --- Brutalist architecture. --- Carnegie Museum of Art. --- Cast Courts (Victoria and Albert Museum). --- Charles Barry. --- Charles Jencks. --- Choragic Monument of Lysicrates. --- Curator. --- Descriptive Catalogue (1809). --- Eduard Schaubert. --- Egyptian Museum. --- Engraving. --- Entablature. --- Erechtheion. --- Ernst Curtius. --- Facsimile. --- Factum Arte. --- Fine art. --- French architecture. --- Glittering Images. --- Glyptothek. --- Gothic architecture. --- Gottfried Semper. --- Harvard University. --- High Renaissance. --- Illustration. --- In Search of Lost Time. --- In situ. --- James Fergusson (architect). --- Johann Joachim Winckelmann. --- John Ruskin. --- John Soane. --- Josef Albers. --- Knoedler. --- Lachish relief. --- Le Corbusier. --- Lewis Nockalls Cottingham. --- Lincoln's Inn Fields. --- Louis Comfort Tiffany. --- Luca della Robbia. --- Marcel Breuer. --- Matthew Digby Wyatt. --- Mausoleum at Halicarnassus. --- Medievalism. --- Metope. --- Metropolitan Museum of Art. --- Modern architecture. --- Modernism. --- Moulage. --- Museum. --- Nimrud. --- Parthenon Frieze. --- Patina. --- Paul Rudolph (architect). --- Pediment. --- Phidias. --- Philip Johnson. --- Photography. --- Picturesque. --- Plaster cast. --- Plaster. --- Rachel Whiteread. --- Renaissance Revival architecture. --- Richard Howland Hunt. --- Romanesque architecture. --- Romanticism. --- Sanchi. --- Scale model. --- Sculpture. --- Sir John Soane's Museum. --- Slater Memorial Museum. --- Stairs. --- Stave church. --- Temple of Castor and Pollux. --- Temple of Dendur. --- Trajan's Column. --- Tutankhamun. --- Venus de Milo. --- Victoria and Albert Museum. --- Vincent Scully. --- Walter Benjamin. --- Well of Moses. --- Winged Victory of Samothrace. --- Work of art. --- Yale University Library.