Reuse Value Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture From Constantine to Sherrie Levine 1st Edition by Richard Brilliant, Dale Kinney 9781409486848 1409486842

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ISBN 10: 1409486842
ISBN 13: 9781409486848
Author: Richard Brilliant, Dale Kinney

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 specific character in relation to other forms of artistic appropriation. Several authors explore the ethical issues raised by spoliation and their implications for the evaluation and interpretation of new work made with spolia.

The contemporary fascination with spolia is part of a larger cultural preoccupation with reuse, recycling, appropriation and re-presentation in the Western world. All of these practices speak to a desire to make use of pre-existing artifacts (objects, images, expressions) for contemporary purposes. Several essays in this volume focus on the distinction between spolia and other forms of reused objects. While some authors prefer to elide such distinctions, others insist that spolia entail some form of taking, often violent, and a diminution of the source from which they are removed.

The book opens with an essay by the scholar most responsible for the popularity of spolia studies in the later twentieth century, Arnold Esch, whose seminal article ‘Spolien’ was published in 1969. Subsequent essays treat late Roman antiquity, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Western Middle Ages, medieval and modern attitudes to spolia in Southern Asia, the Italian Renaissance, the European Enlightenment, modern America, and contemporary architecture and visual culture.

Reuse Value Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture From Constantine to Sherrie Levine 1st 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 Fourth-and 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

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