Monday 27 April 2009

Article: From Fragments to Icons: Stages in the Making and Exhibiting of the Casts of Pompeian Victims, 1863-1888

I just found an interesting on-line article about the history of plastercasts by Eugene Dwyer. I wish I'd found it sooner. This is the reference and link:
Possibly I'm being dim, but I can't figure out what year this came out in. Can anyone complete the reference for me?
The illustration is taken from the article.

2 comments:

Jo Berry said...

My thanks to John Muccigrosso for emailing me with the full reference to this article! It was published in 2005. Thus:

Dwyer, Eugene, "From Fragments to Icons: Stages in the Making and Exhibiting of the Casts of Pompeian Victims, 1863-1888," by Eugene Dwyer. Interpreting Ceramics, Issue 8, 2005.

Nicolas Monteix said...

You may find more things about cast and its relation with art in this exhibition catalogue:

À fleur de peau [Texte imprimé] : le moulage sur nature au XIXe siècle : [exposition], Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 29 octobre 2001-27 janvier 2002, Leeds, Henry Moore institute, 16 février-19 mai 2002, Hambourg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 14 juin-1er septembre 2002, Ligornetto, Museo Vela, Office fédéral de la culture, 14 septembre-17 novembre 2002 / [catalogue par Edouard Papet, Georges Didi-Huberman, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, et al.]
[Paris] : Réunion des musées nationaux, 2001

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