Our keynote speaker at the Lasting Impressions 2018 study day was Professor Chris Dorsett from the University of Northumbria. Prof. Dorsett's talk was entitled Static Art and Temporal Imaginings: Thinking About Philip Rawson Amidst a Numinous Cast Collection. Prof. Dorsett's paper aimed at engaging with the layers of time that are embodied by plaster cast reproductions, drawing on contemporary art theory and practices. Following on from his keynote lecture, Prof. Dorsett has asked us to circulate a relevant bibliography that he drew on during the writing of his paper, which can be found below.
Professor Dorsett with fellow panelists Abbey Ellis and Alice Tofts
Bodor, J. (2017) Exhibiting The Ivor Davies Archive of Destruction (in) Art: an exploration of curatorial processes in presenting historical performance art in the Museum, through observation, case studies and practice, unpublished PhD thesis, Aberystwyth University. (This thesis has lots of interesting ideas about the role of museum conservation in relation to ‘live art’ and other, similarly ephemeral, art forms).
Butler, R. (1979) Western Sculpture: definitions of man, New York: Harper & Row. (This is the source of the description of casts on the walls of Joseph Nollekens’ studio).
Dorsett, C. & Stewart, M. (2012) Cast Contemporaries, Newcastle upon Tyne: Northumbria University.
Hölling, H, (2015) Revisions: zen for film, New York: Bard Graduate Center.
Hölling, H, (2017) Paik's virtual archive: time, change, and materiality in media art, Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press.
Krauss, R. E. (1980) 'The Originality of the Avant-Garde’, in R. E. Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and other Modernist Myths, Cambridge Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 151-170.
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.
Otto, R. (1958) The Idea of the Holy: an inquiry into the non-rational factor in the idea of the divine and its relation to the rational (John W. Harvey, Trans.) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pickstock, C. (2013) Repetition and Identity, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Rawson, P. S. (2005) Art and Time (P. Rawson Ed.), Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Lampert, C. (1986) Rodin: sculpture and drawings, London: Arts Council of Great Britain. (Catalogue to an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery)
Farge, C., Garnier, B., & Jenkins, I. D. (2018) Rodin and the art of ancient Greece, London: Thames & Hudson. (Catalogue to the current exhibition at the British Museum)
Frederiksen, R. & Smith, R. R. R. (2012) The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum: catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture, Oxford: Ashmolean Museum.
