Multiples in Pre-Modern Art

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-03734-374-6
Verlag: diaphanes

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 795 g

Reihe: Bilder-Diskurs

In the last years replicated objects have gained an increasingly central position in the discourse about ancient, medieval and early modern art. ›Multiples‹, we are often told, lack uniqueness, invention, autonomy, and sometimes even authorship. Indeed, ›multiples‹ can be powerful multipliers – in that they enhance the ›aura of the originals‹ that they replicate – but they remain secondary indexes pointing to an ›original‹ imbued with significance. Yet, what happens if ›multiples‹ do not refer to other artifacts at all, or if they are associated with other ›multiples‹ rather than with a first version in the mind of their owners? What happened when serially-made ›multiples‹ were not quite identical to each other, as was the rule with pre-modern artifacts? What shaped their identity and the perception of them as identical?

This collection of essays explores different forms of interaction between the making of artifacts in more than one specimen and their reception before the nineteenth century. It addresses media such as metal, wax, plaster, terracotta, textiles, marble, ivory, porcelain, canvases and tables in an attempt to re-assess the current identification of the mediality of prints with that of pre-modern ›multiples‹ in general.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cupperi, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Klassisch (Griechisch & Römisch)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

7 - 30Never Identical: Multiples in Pre-Modern Art (Walter Cupperi)31 - 58In the Roman Empire an Aura was a Breeze (Miranda Marvin)59 - 94Antike Reproduktionsmedien (Andreas Grüner)95 - 120Die Magdeburger Aquamanilien des 12. Jahrhunderts als 'Multiple' (Joanna Olchawa)121 - 146Die Tapisserie (Wolfgang Brassat)147 - 172Über die Anfänge der Reproduzierbarkeit von Kleinbronzen in der italienischen Renaissance (Claudia Kryza-Gersch)173 - 200'You Could Have Cast Two Hundred of Them' (Walter Cupperi)201 - 228'… Et sia ritratto nella forma medesima' (Susanne Kubersky-Piredda)229 - 244'A Certain Livelier Quality of Expression' (Stefano Pierguidi)245 - 270The Same but Different (Marjorie Trusted)271 - 294Multiples, Authorship and the Eighteenth-Century Portrait Bust’s Aura (Malcolm C. Baker)

Über Autor(innen)

Cupperi, Walter
Walter Cupperi studierte Kunstgeschichte an der Universität Pisa und an der Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Er ist Research Fellow am Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut der Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: Kulturaustausch und transkulturelle Prozesse innerhalb der habsburgischen Herrschaftsgebiete in Europa (1500-1650), Habsburgische Residenzen und Sammlungen, die Rezeption der italienischen Kunst außerhalb Italiens, die Kultur des Portraits sowie das Nachleben der Antike.