Destroy the copy - Plaster Cast Collections in the 19th-20th centuries : demolition, defacement, disposal in Europe and beyond / edited by Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček

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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I (Post)colonial Contexts -- Introduction -- The (Mis)Performance of Cast Collections -- The Rise and Fall of the Museo de Copias: On the History of the Collection of Sculpture Replicas in the National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile -- Embrace the Copy: Plaster Casts and Modernity in Art Education in Japan -- II Contested Classification: Art vs. Archaeology vs. Anthropology -- Introduction -- Hidden in Plain View: The Plaster Cast Collection at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution -- Falling Between the Cracks: UC Berkeley's Plaster Casts -- "Museum of Ancient Art" or White Elephant? The Battle Collection of Plaster Casts at the University of Texas at Austin -- Through Athena's Eyes: The Henry W. Sage Collection of Casts at Cornell University -- From Pillar to Post: Classical Casts at the British Museum -- III The Contingencies of Value -- Introduction -- Burnt, Destroyed, Sold, Lost: The Fate of Cast Collections in the 18th and 19th Centuries -- What Archival Records Do or Do Not Say: The Destruction of Plaster Casts in Geneva -- Die Abguss-Sammlungen im Museum Fridericianum und in der Gemäldegalerie Kassel -- Von systematischer Vernachlässigung bis absichtlicher Zerstörung: Gipsabgüsse in Jenaer und Wiener Antikensammlungen im 20. Jahrhundert -- IV The Contingencies of Authenticity -- Introduction -- Keep the Copy! Die Gipsabguss-Sammlung der Kunsthalle im sog. Hamburger Faksimile-Streit -- Verkauft, verschenkt, zerstört. Vergessen? Die Frankfurter Abguss-Sammlung(en): Versuch einer Rekonstruktion -- The Fate of the Berlin Plaster Cast Collections: From Veneration to Destruction, Defacement, and Disposal -- Smashing Casts: Replication of Scottish Early Medieval Sculpture as a Case Study on the Fragility of Value.

V Revolution and Iconoclasm -- Introduction -- Destruction of Plaster Casts in Workshops and Collections of Important French Institutions in the 19th and 20th Centuries -- The Fate of Cast Collections in French Education: Between Destruction and Abandonment -- "A Rampage by Vandals": The History and Destruction of the Plaster Casts of the National College of Art and Design of Ireland -- Models for Eternity: The Changing Role of Plaster Casts at The Maryland Institute -- VI Envois -- 'Classical' Plaster Casts in Enlightenment and Colonialist Discourses on Race -- Destroy the Copy? Destroy the Copy! A History of (Non-)appreciation -- About the Authors -- Indices -- Locations and Collections -- Individuals -- General.