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Plaster monuments : architecture and the power of reproduction
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ISBN: 9780691177144 0691177147 Year: 2017 Publisher: Princeton Oxford Princeton University Press

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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.

Bâtir la ville : révolutions industrielles dans les matériaux de construction, France-Grande-Bretagne (1760-1840)
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ISSN: 02917157 ISBN: 2876732033 9782876732032 Year: 1995 Volume: *2 Publisher: Seyssel Champ Vallon

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Building materials --- Civil engineering --- Construction --- Génie civil --- History --- Matériaux --- Histoire --- Industrial revolution --- STEDENBOUW -- 930.31 --- -Building materials --- -Civil engineering --- -71.03 --- 691 --- 69 --- 72.034.8/035 --- 71.034.8 --- 71.035 --- Frankrijk --- Groot-Brittannië --- Stedebouw ; industrialisatie ; bouwmaterialen --- Engineering --- Public works --- Architectural materials --- Architecture --- Building --- Building supplies --- Buildings --- Construction materials --- Structural materials --- Materials --- Stedenbouw (geschiedenis) --- Bouwmaterialen (architectuur) --- Bouwtechniek --- Bouwwezen --- Neoclassicisme (architectuur) --- Neoclassicistische architectuur --- 18de eeuw (stedenbouw) --- Achttiende eeuw (stedenbouw) --- 19de eeuw (stedenbouw) --- Negentiende eeuw (stedenbouw) --- Geschiedenis van de stedenbouw ; 18e eeuw --- Génie civil --- Matériaux --- 71.03 --- Revolution, Industrial --- Economic history --- Social history --- Regional planning --- France --- Urbanization --- 18th century --- 19th century --- Technological innovations --- Great Britain --- Building materials - France - History --- Building materials - Great Britain - History --- Civil engineering - France - History --- Civil engineering - Great Britain - History --- Industrial revolution - France --- Industrial revolution - Great Britain --- FRANCE --- CONSTRUCTION --- GRANDE-BRETAGNE --- HISTOIRE URBAINE --- REVOLUTION INDUSTRIELLE --- VILLES --- MATERIAUX --- 18E-19E SIECLES

The new politics of unemployment : radical policy initiatives in Western Europe
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ISBN: 0415150558 041515054X 1134747713 1280318155 0203441834 1134747705 9780203441831 9786610318155 6610318158 9780415150545 9780415150552 9781134747719 9781134747665 1134747667 9781134747702 9781280318153 Year: 1997 Volume: *2 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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