The Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore
The Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore

Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHOR

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-28

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781332062867

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Excerpt from The Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore: The Founder's Letters and the Papers Relating to Its Dedication and Its History, Up to the 1st January, 1868 I request you to accept this trust as my friends, amongst whom, I hope there will ever be found the utmost harmony and concert Of action, in all that relates to the achievement of the good which it is mv aim to secure to the City. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th–20th Centuries
Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th–20th Centuries

Author: Annetta Alexandridis

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2022-09-05

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 3110757966

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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.