Lasting Impressions 2018: Recommended Reading

Explore some of the study day's central issues before you arrive with our recommended reading list, collated by our organising team.

Plaster Casts

• Baker, M. (1982). The History of the Cast Courts. V&A Masterpieces series. Retrieved from http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/the-cast-courts/ 

• Baker, M. (2010). The Reproductive Continuum: plaster casts, paper mosaic and photographs as complementary modes of reproductions in the ninenteenth-century museum. In R. Frederiksen & E. Marchand (Eds.), Paster casts. Making, collecting and displaying from classical antiquity to the present. (Vol. TA 18, pp. 485-500). Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.

• Bilbey, D., & Trusted, M. (2010). "The question of casts" - Collecting and later Reassessment of the cast collection at South Kensington. In R. Frederiksen & E. Marchand (Eds.), Plaster Casts. Making, collecting and displaying from classical antiquity to the present. (Vol. TA18, pp. 465-482). Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.

• Frederick, F. F. (1899). Plaster casts and how they are made. New York: New York, W.T. Comstock.

• Frederiksen, R. (2010). Plaster Casts in Antiquity. In R. Frederiksen & E. Marchand (Eds.), Plaster Casts. Making, collecting and displaying from classical antiquity to the present. (Vol. TA 18, pp. 15-33). Berlin/New York: De Gruyter.

• Kurtz, D. (2000). The Reception of Classical Art in Britain. An Oxford Story of Plaster Casts from the Antique. Oxford: The Beazley Archive and Archaeopress.

• Wager, V. H. (1963). Plaster casting : for the student sculptor. London: London : Alec Tiranti.

Original Works in Plaster

• Krauss, R. (1981). The Originality of the Avant-Garde: A Postmodernist Repetition. In October Vol,.18 (Autumn Issue), pp. 47-66. The MIT Press.

• Penny, N. (1991). Chantrey, Westmacott and Casts after the Antique. In Journal of the History of Collections 3, No.2. pp.255-264.

• Bartsch, T., Becker, M., and Schreiter, C. (2010). The Originality of Copies. An Introduction. In T. Bartsch (ed.) Das Originale der Kopie: Kopien als Produkte und Medien de Transformation von Antike. Berlin/De Gruyter. pp.27-43.

• Fine, G. A. (2003). Crafting Authenticity: The Validation of Identity in Self-Taught Art. In Theory and Society 32, No.2. pp.153-180.
• Foster, S. M. and Curtis, N. G. W. (2016). The Thing about Replicas - Why Historic Replicas Matter. In European Journal of Archaeology 19, No.1 pp.122-148

• Holtorf, C. (2013). On Pastness: A Reconsideration of Materiality. In Archaeological Object Authenticity.” Anthropological Quarterly 86, No. 2 pp.427–43.

• Hughes, A. (1991). Authority, Authenticity and Aura: Walter Benjamin and the Case of Michelangelo. In A. Hughes and E. Ranfft (eds.) Sculpture and Its Reproductions. Reaktion Books. pp.29-45.

• Jeffrey, S. (2015). Challenging Heritage Visualisation: Beauty, Aura and Democratisation. In Open Archaeology 1, no. 1 

• Jones, S. (2010). Negotiating Authentic Objects and Authentic Selves. In Journal of Material Culture 15, no. 2. pp.181–203.

• Jones, S. and Yarrow, T. (2013). Crafting Authenticity. An Ethnography of Conservation Practice. In Journal of Material Culture 18, No.1. pp.3-26.

• Dodds D. and Ravilious, E. (2009). The Factory Project: digitisation at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In Art Libraries Journal, vol. 34 no.2 pp. 10-16. http://www.arlis.net/sites/arlis.net/files/alj_abstract_2009_34_2.pdf

• Edwards, E., & Hart, J. (2004). Photographs objects histories: On the materiality of images. London: Routledge.

• Edwards, E. and Lien, S. (eds.) (2014). Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. 

• E. Edwards & Morton, C. (2015). Photographs, Museums, Collections: Between art and information, eds. E. Edwards & C. Morton. London: Bloomsbury.

• Lister, M. (ed.). (2012). The Photographic Image in Digital Culture. London: Routledge.

• Parry, R. (ed.). (2010). Museums in a Digital Age. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies. London: Routledge. 

• MacDonald, L. (ed.) (2006). Digital Heritage: Applying Digital Imaging to Cultural Heritage. Oxford: Elsevier.

• Sassoon, J. (2004). Photographic materiality in the age of digital reproduction in E. Edwards and J. Hart (eds.) Photographs objects histories: On the materiality of images. London: Routledge, pp. 186-202.

• Shields, D. (2015). Multiple Collections and Fluid Meanings: Alfred Maudslay’s Archaeological Photographs at the British Museum. In Edwards, E. and Morton, C. (eds.) Photographs, Museums, Collections: Between art and information, London: Bloomsbury, pp 27–46.