Reuse value
Subtitle: spolia and appropriation in art and architecture, from Constantine to Sherrie Levine
By: [editors], Richard Brilliant and Dale Kinney
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781409424222; 9781409435181
Subjects: Building materials; Architecture and history; Recycling; Precious stones; Appropriation (Art)
Other titles: Spolia and appropriation in art and architecture, from Constantine to Sherrie Levine
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dale Kinney; title: On the reuse of antiquity : the perspectives of the archaeologist and of the historian / Arnold Esch; title: Reading spolia in late antiquity and contemporary perception / Paolo Liverani; title: The use of older elements in the architecture of fourth-and fifth-century Rome : a contribution to the evaluation of spolia / Hugo Brandenburg; title: Spolia : a definition in ruins / Michael Greenhalgh; title: Ancient gems in the Middle Ages : riches and ready-mades / Dale Kinney; title: Appropriation as inscription : making history in the first Friday Mosque of Delhi Finbarr / Barry Flood; title: Renaissance spolia and Renaissance antiquity (one neighborhood, three cases) / Michael Koortbojian; title: Authenticity and alienation / Richard Brilliant; title: The building's body : spolia as supplement, substitution, destruction / Annabel J. Wharton; title: A medieval monument and its modern myths of iconoclasm : the enduring contestations over the Qutb Complex in Delhi / Mrinalini Rajagopalan; title: Spolia in contemporary architecture : searching for ornament and place / Hans-Rudolf Meier; title: Some thoughts about the significance of postmodern appropriation art / Donald Kuspit; title: Epilogue / Richard Brilliant.