Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th–20th Centuries : : Demolition, Defacement, Disposal in Europe and Beyond / / ed. by Lorenz Winkler-Horaček, Annetta Alexandridis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Alexandridis, Annetta,; Araki, Shinya,; Basile, Joseph J.,; Bevivino, Michael Ann,; Bolle-Fivaz, Clara,; Foster, Sally,; Holm, Henrik,; Hume, Hannah C. M.,; Keller, Natalia,; Kellogg DiSalvo, Lauren,; Leisner, Nadine,; Morinière, Soline,; Oldewurtel, Ulfert,; Payne, Emma,; Pearson, Stephanie,; Pinatel, Christiane,; Rabe, Britta,; Rabinowitz, Adam,; Schreiter, Charlotte,; Schörner, Hadwiga,; Splitter, Rüdiger,; Winkler-Horaček, Lorenz,
• HerausgeberIn: Alexandridis, Annetta,; Winkler-Horaček, Lorenz,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 608 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I (Post)colonial Contexts -- Introduction -- The (Mis)Performance of Cast Collections -- The Rise and Fall of the Museo de Copias: On the History of the Collection of Sculpture Replicas in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile -- Embrace the Copy: Plaster Casts and Modernity in Art Education in Japan -- II Contested Classification: Art vs. Archaeology vs. Anthropology -- Introduction -- Hidden in Plain View: The Plaster Cast Collection at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution -- Falling Between the Cracks: UC Berkeley’s Plaster Casts -- “Museum of Ancient Art” or White Elephant? The Battle Collection of Plaster Casts at the University of Texas at Austin -- Through Athena’s Eyes: The Henry W. Sage Collection of Casts at Cornell University -- From Pillar to Post: Classical Casts at the British Museum -- III The Contingencies of Value -- Introduction -- Burnt, Destroyed, Sold, Lost: The Fate of Cast Collections in the 18th and 19th Centuries -- What Archival Records Do or Do Not Say: The Destruction of Plaster Casts in Geneva -- Die Abguss-Sammlungen im Museum Fridericianum und in der Gemäldegalerie Kassel -- Von systematischer Vernachlässigung bis absichtlicher Zerstörung: Gipsabgüsse in Jenaer und Wiener Antikensammlungen im 20. Jahrhundert -- IV The Contingencies of Authenticity -- Introduction -- Keep the Copy! Die Gipsabguss-Sammlung der Kunsthalle im sog. Hamburger Faksimile-Streit -- Verkauft, verschenkt, zerstört. Vergessen? Die Frankfurter Abguss-Sammlung(en): Versuch einer Rekonstruktion -- The Fate of the Berlin Plaster Cast Collections: From Veneration to Destruction, Defacement, and Disposal -- Smashing Casts: Replication of Scottish Early Medieval Sculpture as a Case Study on the Fragility of Value -- V Revolution and Iconoclasm -- Introduction -- Destruction of Plaster Casts in Workshops and Collections of Important French Institutions in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- The Fate of Cast Collections in French Education: Between Destruction and Abandonment -- “A Rampage by Vandals”: The History and Destruction of the Plaster Casts of the National College of Art and Design of Ireland -- Models for Eternity: The Changing Role of Plaster Casts at The Maryland Institute -- VI Envois -- ‘Classical’ Plaster Casts in Enlightenment and Colonialist Discourses on Race -- Destroy the Copy? Destroy the Copy! A History of (Non-)appreciation -- About the Authors -- Indices -- Locations and Collections -- Individuals -- General