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From ancient times until the present, spoliation and reutilization have played a waxing and waning role among the determinant factors in the evolution of urban landscapes. They have contributed significantly to shaping urban spaces, both physically and conceptually. This collection of essays describes and analyzes the diverse practical and semantic aspects of transposing and reutilizing materials.

Urban archaeology. --- Building materials. --- Late Antiquity. --- Middle Ages. --- Reutilization. --- Spolia.

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Architecture, Roman. --- Sculpture, Roman. --- Building materials --- Sculpture materials --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Material culture --- Recycling --- Spolia --- Building materials. Building technology --- Aesthetics of art --- Architecture --- Roman history --- sculpture [visual works] --- material culture [discipline] --- aesthetics --- adaptive reuse --- architecture [object genre] --- building materials

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This book explores the spoliation of architectural and sculptural materials during the Roman empire. Examining a wide range of materials, including imperial portraits, statues associated with master craftsmen, architectural moldings and fixtures, tombs and sarcophagi, arches and gateways, it demonstrates that secondary intervention was common well before Late Antiquity, in fact, centuries earlier than has been previously acknowledged. The essays in this volume, written by a team of international experts, collectively argue that re-use was a natural feature of human manipulation of the physical environment, rather than a sign of social pressure. Re-use often reflected appreciation for the function, form, and design of the material culture of earlier eras. Political, social, religious, and economic factors also contributed to the practice. A comprehensive overview of spoliation and re-use, this volume examines the phenomenon in Rome and throughout the Mediterranean world.

Architecture, Roman. --- Sculpture materials --- Aesthetics, Roman. --- Building materials --- Material culture --- Sculpture, Roman. --- Roman sculpture --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Buildings --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Roman aesthetics --- Artists' materials --- Roman architecture --- Recycling --- Spolia

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How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the appeal of ruins and ruins images, and the lessons that writers and artists have drawn from their haunting forms. Stewart takes us on a sweeping journey through founding legends of broken covenants and original sin, the Christian appropriation of the classical past, myths and rituals of fertility, images of decay in early modern allegory and melancholy, the ruins craze of the eighteenth century, and the creation of “new ruins” for gardens and other structures. Stewart focuses particularly on Renaissance humanism and Romanticism, periods of intense interest in ruins that also offer new frames for their perception. The Ruins Lesson looks in depth at the works of Goethe, Piranesi, Blake, and Wordsworth, each of whom found in ruins a means of reinventing art. Ruins, Stewart concludes, arise at the boundaries of cultures and civilizations. Their very appearance depends upon an act of translation between the past and the present, between those who have vanished and those who emerge. Lively and engaging, The Ruins Lesson ultimately asks what can resist ruination—and finds in the self-transforming, ever-fleeting practices of language and thought a clue to what might truly endure.

Ruins in literature. --- Ruins in art. --- Antiquities in literature. --- Antiquities in art. --- ruins, art, history, egypt, legend, wordsworth, blake, piranesi, goethe, decay, classicism, christianity, religion, inscriptions, memorials, allegory, original sin, ruination, transformation, antiquities, spolia, women, gender, sexuality, virtue, nymph, whore, virgin, humanism, architecture, trauma, destruction, humanities, renaissance, memory, romanticism, literature, painting, printmaking, iconoclasm, monument, aesthetics, death, nonfiction, preservation, obliteration, parlanti ruine, materiality, endurance, transience. --- ruins, art, history, egypt, legend, wordsworth, blake, piranesi, goethe, decay, classicism, christianity, religion, inscriptions, memorials, allegory, original sin, ruination, transformation, antiquities, spolia, women, gender, sexuality, virtue, nymph, whore, virgin, humanism, architecture, trauma, destruction, humanities, renaissance, memory, romanticism, literature, painting, printmaking, iconoclasm, monument, aesthetics, death, nonfiction, preservation, obliteration, parlanti ruine, materiality, endurance, transience.

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This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a critical category and seek to define its specific character in relation to other forms of artistic appropriation. Several authors explore the ethical issues raised by spoliation and their implications for the evaluation and interpretation of new work made with spolia. The contemporary fascination with spolia is part of a larger cultural preoccupation with reuse, recycling, appropriation and re-presentation in the Western world. All of these practices speak to a desire to make use of pre-existing artifacts (objects, images, expressions) for contemporary purposes. Several essays in this volume focus on the distinction between spolia and other forms of reused objects. While some authors prefer to elide such distinctions, others insist that spolia entail some form of taking, often violent, and a diminution of the source from which they are removed. The book opens with an essay by the scholar most responsible for the popularity of spolia studies in the later twentieth century, Arnold Esch, whose seminal article 'Spolien' was published in 1969. Subsequent essays treat late Roman antiquity, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Middle Ages, medieval and modern attitudes to spolia in Southern Asia, the Italian Renaissance, the European Enlightenment, modern America, and contemporary architecture and visual culture.

Architecture and history. --- Appropriation (Art) --- Architecture et histoire --- Building materials --- Precious stones --- Recycling. --- Appropriation (Art). --- Building materials -- Recycling. --- Precious stones -- Recycling. --- Architecture and history --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Architecture --- Recycling --- Gem minerals --- Gemstones --- Jewels --- Semi-precious stones --- Stones, Precious --- Minerals --- Gemology --- Gems --- Architectural materials --- Building --- Building supplies --- Buildings --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- History and architecture --- History --- Appropriated imagery --- Appropriated images --- Appropriationism (Art) --- Postmodernism --- Imitation in art --- Appropriation (Architecture) --- Building materials. Building technology --- Art --- art [fine art] --- spolia --- appropriation [imagery] --- recycling --- architecture [object genre] --- building materials --- architectural history --- Construction --- Pierres fines --- Remplois (architecture) --- Matériaux --- Recyclage --- art [discipline]