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Plaster Casts
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...
Casting a New Light
This volume publishes the papers of the international conference Plaster Casts & Cast Collections across Europe: History and Future, held in the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest on 24 May 2022.
Thorvaldsen
The Danish neoclassical sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), who lived most of his life in Rome, was not only one of Europe’s most soughtafter artists; he was also a collector. In addition to his own works and drawings, he built extensive collections of paintings, prints, drawings and books – and of ancient artefacts from Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquity: coins, lockets, containers, vases, lamps, fragments of sculpture and more. He also acquired a large collection of plaster casts, primarily after ancient sculptures and reliefs, but also of works dating from the Renaissance and up until his own lifetime. Thanks to Thorvaldsen’s bequest to the city of Copenhagen, his birthplace...
Destroy the Copy – Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th–20th Centuries
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.
Conservation of Plaster Casts
This book examines the production of plaster casts and the issues associated with their storage and display in the past and the present. The research and conservation work presented here was carried out in the Czech Republic at the collections of plaster casts at the Stanislav Sucharda Museum, the Gallery of the Central Bohemian Region and the National Gallery in Prague.00From the contents:01 Introduction to the issue of plaster casts0Jakob ?oubal002 A brief history of plaster casts0Barbora Glombová and Jakob ?oubal 003 The technology behind the making of casts0Martin Kulhánek and Jakob ?oubal03.1 Mould making03.2 Casting 004 Surface finishes0Barbora Glombová and Jakob ?oubal 005 Characteristics of gypsum binder and plaster casts0Renata Ti?lová, Jakob ?oubal and Petra Zítková05.1 The composition of gypsum binder05.2 Production of gypsum binder05.3 Hydration of hemihydrate plaster05.4 Influence of admixtures05.5 Microstructural properties of plaster casts05.6 Absorption capacity and hygroscopicity of plaster casts05.7 Sensitivity of plaster casts to high temperature05.8 Solubility05.9 Mechanical properties of plaster casts.
Plaster Casting
This book provides sufficient practical details to enable nurses, plaster technicians and doctors to apply presentable and functional casts, avoiding common hazards. It concentrates on basic principles which can be adapted for individual patient's needs and circumstances. A feature of the book is its emphasis on patient care, both in hospital and at home. In particular, the patient's own self care responsibilities are clearly demonstrated.
Sculpture
Offers advice on using tools and constructing armatures as well as shaping human figures, portrait heads, and bas reliefs from clay, plaster, wood, stone, and metal
