A Description Of The Architecture And Monumental Sculpture In The South East Court Of The South Kensington Museum
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The Victoria and Albert Museum
| Author | : Elizabeth James |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 841 |
| Release | : 2013-10-15 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1134271069 |
A comprehensive bibliography and exhibition chronology of the world's greatest museum of the decorative arts and design. The Victoria and Albert Museum, or South Kensington Museum as it used to be known, was founded by the British Government in 1852, out of the proceeds from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Like the Exhibition, it aimed to improve the expertise of designers, and the taste of the public, by exposing them to examples of good design from all countries and periods. 2,500 publications have to date been produced by, for, or in association with the V&A. The National Art Library, which is part of the Museum, has prepared this detailed catalogue, supplemented by a secondary list of 500 other books closely related to the V&A. The 1,500 exhibitions and displays recorded include those held in the main Museum and at its branches, the Bethnal Green Museum (now the National Museum of Childhood) and the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden, and additionally those it has organized at external venues, in Great Britain and abroad. The exhibitions and publications are fully cross-referenced, and there are name, title and subject indexes to the whole work, as well as an explanatory introduction.
A Description of the Architecture and Monumental Sculpture in the South-East Court of the South Kensington Museum
| Author | : John Hungerford Pollen |
| Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-07-18 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781022496781 |
Explore the stunning artworks and architecture of the South Kensington Museum with this detailed guide to the museum's southeast court. Featuring beautiful illustrations and insightful commentary from art expert John Hungerford Pollen, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in art and design. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Plaster Monuments
| Author | : Mari Lending |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2022-06-14 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0691239622 |
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. Drawing from a broad archive of models, exhibitions, catalogues, and writings from architects, explorers, archaeologists, curators, novelists, and artists, Plaster Monuments tells the fascinating story of a premodernist aesthetic and presents a new way of thinking about history’s artifacts.
Angkor Wat – A Transcultural History of Heritage
| Author | : Michael Falser |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
| Total Pages | : 1170 |
| Release | : 2019-12-16 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 3110335840 |
This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajectories. By bringing to light many unresearched dimensions of the twelfth-century Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat during its modern history, the study argues for a conceptual, connected history that unfolded within the transcultural interstices of European and Asian projects. With more than 1,400 black-and-white and colour illustrations of historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media, the monograph discusses the multiple lives of Angkor Wat over a 150-year-long period from the 1860s to the 2010s. Volume 1 (Angkor in France) reconceptualises the Orientalist, French-colonial ‘discovery’ of the temple in the nineteenth century and brings to light the manifold strategies at play in its physical representations as plaster cast substitutes in museums and as hybrid pavilions in universal and colonial exhibitions in Marseille and Paris from 1867 to 1937. Volume 2 (Angkor in Cambodia) covers, for the first time in this depth, the various on-site restoration efforts inside the ‘Archaeological Park of Angkor’ from 1907 until 1970, and the temple’s gradual canonisation as a symbol of national identity during Cambodia’s troublesome decolonisation (1953–89), from independence to Khmer Rouge terror and Vietnamese occupation, and, finally, as a global icon of UNESCO World Heritage since 1992 until today. Congratulations to our author Michael Falser who received the prestigious 2021 ICAS Book Prize in the "Ground Breaking Subject Matter" category.
A Description of the Architecture and Monumental Sculpture in the South-East Court of the South Kensington Museum
| Author | : John Hungerford Pollen |
| Publisher | : Theclassics.Us |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2013-09 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781230403939 |
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...gilt, and the surface of both sides and gabled top are reticulated with square panels set diamondwisc. They contain armorial bearings; alternately the imperial eagle displayed, and a demi eagle impaled with two bends, being the arms of the city of Niirnburg (?). The chasse is placed on an altar tomb, the ends and sides of which are recessed in panels filled with sculptured basreliefs and the four angles supported by detached pillars; it stands on a base. The whole is enclosed in a shrine or chapel, with a roof elaborately ornamented with architectural groinings, and surmounted by three richly composed canopies, which rise with great multiplication of parts, such as niches, arches, &c. The centre canopy is surmounted by an image of the Infant Saviour holding an orb in His left hand. The roof is supported on three side and two end arches, which rest on square piers connected by arches at the base, and standing on a square slab or plinth, which is carried on the backs of snails in their shells. The shrine is of bronze cast and chased, and the whole elaborately decorated with figures of different scale. It can be taken in detail. The piers are square, with small round shafts at the angles. They rest on bases having niches filled with grotesque figures on three sides. The bases are connected with each other by round arched braces richly decorated, which form a small arcade round the structure. Two-thirds of the way up the column are images of the Twelve Apostles. They stand on brackets supported upon tall candelabra, all elaborately decorated with surface ornament. Above these figures are canopies, and on the summit of each pier stands a small figure of one of the prophets of the Old Testament. The corner piers are double, showing both...
Catalogue of Books Relating to Architecture, Construction & Decoration
| Author | : Boston Public Library |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 558 |
| Release | : 1914 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
Plaster Casts
| Author | : Rune Frederiksen |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 765 |
| Release | : 2010-09-27 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 3110216876 |
This volume originates from an international conference (Oxford University, 2007). Texts address plaster casts and related themes from antiquity to the present day, and from Egypt to America, Mexico and New Zealand. They are of interest to classical archaeologists, art historians, the history of collecting, curators, conservators, collectors and artists. Articles explore the functions, status and reception of plaster casts in artists’ workshops and in private and public collections, as well as hands-on issues, such as the making, trading, display and conservation of plaster casts. Case-studies on artists’ use of material and technique include ancient Roman copyists, Renaissance sculptors and painters, Dutch 17th-century workshops, Canova, Boccioni and others. A second theme is the role of plaster casts in the history of collecting from the Renaissance to the present day. Several papers address the dissemination of visual ideas, models and ideals through the medium. Papers on modern and contemporary art illuminate the changing uses and semantic values of plaster casts in this period. Amongst the types of casts discussed are artists’ models and final works as well as casts after antiquities, including sculpture, architecture and gems (dactyliothecae). The volume demonstrates the richness of the field, both in terms of the material itself and modern scholarship concerned with it. Conceived as a handbook for students, academics, curators and collectors, the text will form a standard work on the role of plaster casts in the history of Western sculpture.
