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02789aam a2200337 i 4500 001 C69ED47CF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180104010254 008 161129s2017 njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016053830 020 $a 0691177147 020 $a 9780691177144 035 $a (OCoLC)964698459 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a NA2005 $b .L46 2017 082 00 $a 702.8/72 $2 23 100 1 $a Lending, Mari, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Plaster monuments : $b architecture and the power of reproduction / $c Mari Lending. 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xi, 283 pages ; $c 27 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Monuments in flux -- Travels in the province of reproductions -- Trocadero: Proust's museum -- The poetics of plaster -- Cablegrams and monuments -- The Yale battle of casts: Albers vs. Rudolph -- Coda: Lost continents, fluctuating objects. 520 8 $a 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. 650 0 $a Architectural casts. 650 0 $a Art $x Social aspects. $x Social aspects. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211032335.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180104062634.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C69ED47CF11E11E79D0FC10F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search