abstract · Between the 1870s and the First World War, in New York, Boston, Chicago and Washington, casts of ancient sculpture were studied and appreciated in the USA as “the real treasures” of the new museums and the opportunity to introduce visitors to the values of the ancient civilizations. While waiting for the symbolic and financial investment of the tycoons to replace them with original works of quality and prestige, the “casts culture” guaranteed the legitimacy of public museums also as spaces for a new civil ritual and of a vision of art and history which resemble the conceptual structures and practices explored by Christopher S. Wood for the early modern age: that is, when the meaning of an artifact lay in the variable repetition of the series rather than in the authority of the first versions and copying was the normal way to make new things.
Antichi dèi ed eroi in copia. Appunti sulle collezioni di calchi di scultura antica negli States nel XIX secolo
Trotta, Antonella
2023-01-01
Abstract
abstract · Between the 1870s and the First World War, in New York, Boston, Chicago and Washington, casts of ancient sculpture were studied and appreciated in the USA as “the real treasures” of the new museums and the opportunity to introduce visitors to the values of the ancient civilizations. While waiting for the symbolic and financial investment of the tycoons to replace them with original works of quality and prestige, the “casts culture” guaranteed the legitimacy of public museums also as spaces for a new civil ritual and of a vision of art and history which resemble the conceptual structures and practices explored by Christopher S. Wood for the early modern age: that is, when the meaning of an artifact lay in the variable repetition of the series rather than in the authority of the first versions and copying was the normal way to make new things.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
