Reuse Value Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine

• Main Authors: Brilliant, Richard, Kinney, Dale
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2011; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group; Ashgate
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Appropriation (Art); Architectural History; Architecture and history; Art & Visual Culture; Building materials; Classical Studies; Late Antiquity & Byzantium; Medieval History 400-1500; Precious stones; Recycling; Maria Im Kapitol; Midas Touch; Vice Versa; Porticus Octaviae; Tribune Tower; Cancelleria Reliefs; Erased De Kooning Drawing; Proconnesian Marble; Willem De Kooning; Giuliano Da Sangallo; Iron Pillar; Public Administration; Imperial Buildings; tower; Abbot Suger; tribune; Chicago Tribune Tower Competition; Ancient Pieces; sherrie; temples; City Center Department Stores; Islamic Iconoclasm; Interpretatio Christiana; Campus Martius; jain; Ghurid Sultan; christiana; levine; Late Antique Viewer; pillar; De Kooning; Lateran Basilica; iron; interpretatio; Duchamp's Ready Mades
• ISBN: 1409424227; 9781409424222; 9781138246768; 113824676X
• DOI: 10.4324/9781315606187

This book offers a range of views on spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from fourth-century Rome to the late twentieth century. Using case studies from different historical moments and cultures, contributors test the limits of spolia as a critical category and seek to define its specif...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 On the Reuse of Antiquity: The Perspectives of the Archaeologist and of the Historian -- 2 Reading Spolia in Late Antiquity and Contemporary Perception -- 3 The Use of Older Elements in the Architecture of Fourthand Fifth-Century Rome: A Contribution to the Evaluation of Spolia -- 4 Spolia: A Definition in Ruins -- 5 Ancient Gems in the Middle Ages: Riches and Ready-mades -- 6 Appropriation as Inscription: Making History in the First Friday Mosque of Delhi -- 7 Renaissance Spolia and Renaissance Antiquity(One Neighborhood, Three Cases) -- 8 Authenticity and Alienation -- 9 The Tribune Tower: Spolia as Despoliation -- 10 A Medieval Monument and its Modern Myths of Iconoclasm: The Enduring Contestations over the Qutb Complex in Delhi, India -- 11 Spolia in Contemporary Architecture: Searching for Ornament and Place -- 12 Some Thoughts About the Significance of Postmodern Appropriation Art -- Epilogue Open Sesame: The Art Treasures of the World on Call -- Index
• Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- 1 On the Reuse of Antiquity: The Perspectives of the Archaeologist and of the Historian -- 2 Reading Spolia in Late Antiquity and Contemporary Perception -- 3 The Use of Older Elements in the Architecture of Fourth- and Fifth-Century Rome -- 4 Spolia: A Definition in Ruins -- 5 Ancient Gems in the Middle Ages: Riches and Ready-mades -- 6 Appropriation as Inscription: Making History in the First Friday Mosque of Delhi -- 7 Renaissance Spolia and Renaissance Antiquity (One Neighborhood, Three Cases) -- 8 Authenticity and Alienation -- 9 The Tribune Tower: Spolia as Despoliation -- 10 A Medieval Monument and its Modern Myths of Iconoclasm -- 11 Spolia in Contemporary Architecture: Searching for Ornament and Place -- 12 Some Thoughts About the Significance of Postmodern Appropriation Art -- Epilogue -- Index