Reuse value spolia and appropriation in art and architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine / edited by Richard Brilliant and Dale Kinney.

Other author Brilliant, Richard.
Other author Kinney, Dale.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoFarnham, Surrey, UK, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,
Description268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Portion of title Spolia and appropriation in art and architecture, from Constantine to Sherrie Levine
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2011014772
ISBN9781409424222 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1409424227 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781409435181 (ebook)
ISBN1409435180 (ebook)

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