Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, UK, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2011.

Description:

268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
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.

Summary:

The common building practice of re-using perfectly good pieces of marble and other fitted and often carved pieces of stone is the subject of this fascinating group of 12 essays by an international group of art and architectural historians. The volume opens with an essay by Arnold Esch (emeritus, Deutsches Historsches Institut, Rome), who was the first to draw attention to the use of spolia as a worthwhile topic of study. Other essay topics include the complex symbolism of reused Hindu temple carvings in the Qutb mosque in Delhi, by Finbarr Barry Flood (New York U.); the current clashes over the religious meaning of the same mosque, by Mrinalini Rajagopalan (U. of Pittsburgh); the reuse of classical gems in the Middle Ages, by Dale Kinney (emeritus, Bryn Mawr College); appropriation as an art form in postmodernism, by Donald Kuspit (emeritus, Stony Brook U.); and a refreshingly frank essay by Michael Greenhalgh (emeritus, Australian National U., Canberra) on the glib tendency of art historians to ascribe meaning to the use of spolia absent supporting evidence.

ISBN:

9781409424222 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1409424227 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781409435181 (ebook)
1409435180 (ebook)

Subject:

Architecture and history.
Building materials Recycling.
Precious stones Recycling.
Appropriation (Architecture)
Architecture et histoire.
Construction Matériaux Recyclage.
Spolia (archeologie).
Appropriation (Art)

Form/genre:

Case studies.
History.

Added entries:

Brilliant, Richard.
Kinney, Dale.

Spolia and appropriation in art and architecture, from Constantine to Sherrie Levine

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275705
Call No.: BIB 210052
Status: Available