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REVIVALS. RECONSIDERING THE PAST IN THE DECORATIVE ARTS AND DESIGN.
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the ICDAD - International Committee for Museums and Collections of Decorative Arts and Design. Online, 21-23 October 2021. Publisher: ICOM - International Council of Museums.
The Shock of Recognition
In The Shock of Recognition, Lewis Pyenson uses a method called Historical Complementarity to identify the motif of non-figurative abstraction in modern art and science. He identifies the motif in Picasso’s and Einstein’s educational environments. He shows how this motif in domestic furnishing and in urban lighting set the stage for Picasso’s and Einstein’s professional success before 1914. He applies his method to intellectual life in Argentina, using it to address that nation’s focus on an inventory of the natural world until the 1940s, its adoption of non-figurative art and nuclear physics in the middle of the twentieth century, and attention to landscape painting and the wonder of nature at the end of the century.
The God Behind the Marble
"This book tells the story of how Germans struggled to make art an autonomous instrument of social progress in the face of real-world challenges between 1790-1850. For philosophers such as Friedrich Schiller, a work of art was governed by its own laws and soared above trivial constraints; thus, a painting or sculpture could both model and stimulate the moral autonomy of its beholders. This "aesthetic education" (to be conducted in the newish institution of museums) would yield an "aesthetic state," born of the measured reason of its citizens rather than the fractious antagonisms of mobs and tyrants. But highbrows like Schiller failed to consider the tough realities facing art "on the ground....
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...
Das Originale der Kopie
Probleme der Kopien antiker Kunst in nachantiken Epochen werden in diesem Band in Archäologie und Kunstgeschichte im Einzelfall und am Einzelbeispiel besprochen. Begriffe wie Adaption, Anverwandlung, Imitation, Kopie, Nachahmung, Nachbildung oder Reproduktion bevölkern die Literatur in ebenso großer Vielfalt wie die Objekte, auf die sie angewendet werden, die Museen und Sammlungen der Welt seit der Frühen Neuzeit. Über das Phänomen neuzeitlicher Kopien hinausgehend werden damit verbundene Themen wie Ergänzung und Rekonstruktion oder aber das Problem des Fragments in den Blick genommen. Im Gegensatz zur Vorstellung der Antikenkopie als fester Größe, die es am antiken Original zu überprüfen gilt, werden die Transformationsprozesse im Vorgang des Kopierens betont.
The Book on the Floor
In 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher André Malraux posed at home for a photographer from the magazine Paris Match, surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book Le musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale. The enchanting metaphor of the musée imaginaire (imaginary museum) was built upon that illustrated art book, and Malraux was one of its greatest champions. Drawing on a range of contemporary publications, he adopted images and responded to ideas. Indeed, Malraux’s book on the floor is a variation of photographer André Vigneau’s spectacular Encyclopédie photographique de l’art, published in five volumes from 1935 on—years before Malraux would enter this field....
Animating the Antique
Framed by tensions between figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations, Animating the Antique explores enthralling episodes in a history of artistic and aesthetic encounters. Moving across varied locations—among them Rome, Florence, Naples, London, Dresden, and Paris—Sarah Betzer explores a history that has yet to be written: that of the Janus-faced nature of interactions with the antique by which sculptures and beholders alike were caught between the promise of animation and the threat of mortification. Examining the traces of affective and transformative sculptural encounters, the book takes off from the decades marked by the arch...
Collecting Prints and Drawings
Cabinets of prints and drawings are found in the earliest art collections of Early Modern Europe. From the sixteenth century onwards, some of them acquired such fame that the necessity for an ordered and scientific display meant that a dedicated keeper was occasionally employed to ensure that fellow enthusiasts, as well as visiting diplomats, courtiers and artists, might have access to the print room. Often collected and displayed together with drawings, the prints formed a substantial part of princely collections which sometimes achieved astounding longevity as a specialised group of collectibles, such as the Florentine Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe at the Uffizi (GDSU). Prints and drawings, b...
Divine Interiors
"Divine interiors" is een onderzoek naar de aankleding van Griekse en Romeinse heiligdommen met wandschilderingen. Machtige marmeren façades, beeldhouwwerken en schilderingen speelden een belangrijke rol in het aanzien van deze monumenten. Terwijl de officiële tempels, die met de steden of de staat waren verbonden, meestal een plechtige maar sobere uitstraling hadden, waren de gebouwen die gericht waren op meer volkse uitingen van religiositeit juist bont beschilderd. Scènes uit het leven van de vereerde godheid, aanhangers en beoefenaren van de cultus, planten en dieren konden de bezoekers van deze heiligdommen in hogere sferen brengen. Het valt op dat er in de uitgestrekte Grieks-Romeinse wereld veel overeenkomsten te vinden zijn tussen vaak ver van elkaar gelegen tempels. De muurschilderkunst kende net als andere kunstvormen stijl- en smaakveranderingen, maar die hadden wel overal dezelfde uitstraling.
Archäologie und Restaurierung
Astrid Fendt untersucht am Beispiel der Berliner Antikensammlung Praktiken und Diskurse zum Sammeln, Restaurieren und Präsentieren von antiker Plastik im 19. Jahrhundert. Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht die Beziehung zwischen Restaurierungspraxis und Wissenschaftsdiskurs: welche Bilder von Antike(n) werden durch die jeweils aktuellen Praktiken zur Ergänzung, Um- und Entrestaurierung von antiker Plastik entworfen beziehungsweise liegen ihnen zugrunde? Dieser Frage geht die Autorin unter Berücksichtigung der sich in dem Zeitraum als eigenständige Fachdisziplin etablierenden Klassischen Archäologie nach. Des Weiteren werden die in der Berliner Sammlung ausgebildeten Wissens- und Kompetenzstrukturen sowie die jeweiligen Präsentationskonzepte mit in die Analyse einbezogen. Somit wird auf der Basis eines ausführlichen Kataloges in einer transdisziplinären Studie erstmals die Restaurierungsgeschichte der Berliner antiken Plastik mit vergleichendem Blick auf andere, maßgebliche europäische Sammlungen geschrieben. Dabei entstanden ist ein Grundlagenwerk zur Geschichte der Antikenrestaurierung und des Antikensammelns.
