Reuse value : spolia and appropriation in art and architecture, from Constantine to Sherrie Levine

Introduction / Dale Kinney -- On the reuse of antiquity : the perspectives of the archaeologist and of the historian / Arnold Esch -- Reading spolia in late antiquity and contemporary perception / Paolo Liverani -- The use of older elements in the architecture of fourth-and fifth-century Rome : a co...

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Other Authors: Brilliant, Richard (Editor, Hrsg.)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham [u.a.] : Ashgate , 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Dale Kinney
  • On the reuse of antiquity : the perspectives of the archaeologist and of the historian
  • Arnold Esch
  • Reading spolia in late antiquity and contemporary perception
  • Paolo Liverani
  • The use of older elements in the architecture of fourth-and fifth-century Rome : a contribution to the evaluation of spolia
  • Hugo Brandenburg
  • Spolia : a definition in ruins
  • Michael Greenhalgh
  • Ancient gems in the Middle Ages : riches and ready-mades
  • Dale Kinney
  • Appropriation as inscription : making history in the first Friday Mosque of Delhi Finbarr
  • Barry Flood
  • Renaissance spolia and Renaissance antiquity (one neighborhood, three cases)
  • Michael Koortbojian
  • Authenticity and alienation
  • Richard Brilliant
  • The building's body : spolia as supplement, substitution, destruction
  • Annabel J. Wharton
  • A medieval monument and its modern myths of iconoclasm : the enduring contestations over the Qutb Complex in Delhi
  • Mrinalini Rajagopalan
  • Spolia in contemporary architecture : searching for ornament and place
  • Hans-Rudolf Meier
  • Some thoughts about the significance of postmodern appropriation art
  • Donald Kuspit
  • Epilogue
  • Richard Brilliant.