Sculpture and Its Reproductions
Erich Ranfft, Anthony HughesA work which sets out to open up the debate on the reproduction and authenticity of sculpture, from the ancient world to contemporary art.
With essays by Ed Allington, Malcolm Baker, Anthony Hughes, Neil McWilliam, Miranda Marvin, Alexandra Parigoris, Martin Postle, Erich Ranfft and Marjorie Trusted.
This collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus on issues concerning sculpture and reproduction, and to explore their theoretical and practical consequences. What does it mean for a sculpture to be reproduced? Does it diminish or add to the authenticity and authority of the original?
Ranging from the Ancient to the Modern world, and investigating the function of artistic reproduction in cultures as diverse as the Catholic Spain of the Golden Age and the avant-garde of early twentieth century Germany, these essays significantly add to our understanding of a number of major sculptors, including Michelangelo, Rodin and Brancusi.
A work which sets out to open up the debate on the reproduction and authenticity of sculpture, from the ancient world to contemporary art.
With essays by Ed Allington, Malcolm Baker, Anthony Hughes, Neil McWilliam, Miranda Marvin, Alexandra Parigoris, Martin Postle, Erich Ranfft and Marjorie Trusted.
This collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus on issues concerning sculpture and reproduction, and to explore their theoretical and practical consequences. What does it mean for a sculpture to be reproduced? Does it diminish or add to the authenticity and authority of the original?
Ranging from the Ancient to the Modern world, and investigating the function of artistic reproduction in cultures as diverse as the Catholic Spain of the Golden Age and the avant-garde of early twentieth century Germany, these essays significantly add to our understanding of a number of major sculptors, including Michelangelo, Rodin and Brancusi.
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Throughout this book, the postmodern questioning of notions such as authorship, original, copy, multiple, variant, and model are effectively reconsidered in terms of the reproduction of sculpture. Anthony Hughes and Eric Ranfft have assembled a series of intellectually challenging and genuinely informative essays . . . The editors have set out to demonstrate that the replication of sculpture played a fundamental rather than marginal role in the history of Western art and they have succeeded in their quest.
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Photographic Acknowledgements
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Introduction – Anthony Hughes and Erich Ranfft
1. Roman Sculptural Reproductions or Polykleitos: The Sequel – Miranda Marvin
2. Authority, Authenticity and Aura: Walter Benjamin and the Case of Michelangelo – Anthony Hughes
3. Art for the Masses: Spanish Sculpture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries – Marjorie Trusted
4. The Ivory Multiplied: Small-scale Sculpture and its Reproductions in the Eighteenth Century – Malcolm Baker
5. Naked Authority? Reproducing Antique Statuary in the English Academy, from Lely to Haydon – Martin Postle
6. Craft, Commerce and the Contradictions of Anti-capitalism: Reproducing the Applied Art of Jean Baffier – Neil McWilliam
7. Reproduced Sculpture of German Expressionism: Living Objects, Theatrics of Display and Practical Options – Erich Ranfft
8. Truth to Material: Bronze, on the Reproducibility of Truth – Alexandra Parigoris
9. Venus a Go Go, To Go – Edward Allington
References
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Index
Erich Ranfft (Anthology Editor)
Erich Ranfft is Henry Moore scholar at the University of Leeds.
Anthony Hughes (Anthology Editor)
Anthony Hughes is lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Leeds.