Reuse value spolia and appropriation in art and architecture, from Constantine to Sherrie Levine / [electronic resource] :
Spolia and appropriation in art and architecture, from Constantine to Sherrie Levine
edited by Richard Brilliant and Dale Kinney.
- Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.
- xiii, 268 p. : ill.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Architecture and history.
Building materials--Recycling.
Precious stones--Recycling.
Appropriation (Art)
Electronic books.
NA2543.H55 / R48 2011eb
709
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Architecture and history.
Building materials--Recycling.
Precious stones--Recycling.
Appropriation (Art)
Electronic books.
NA2543.H55 / R48 2011eb
709