International Association for the Conservation and the Promotion of Plaster Cast Collections
Plaster Casts : death or life ?
Publication in danish language.Titles translated by Jan Zahle. Book published by the Friends of the Royal Cast Collection in Copenhague.
- Marie-Louise Berner, MA in Art History, Senior Research Fellow. Chairman.
The Friends of the Copenhagen Cast Collection.
- Flemming Johansen, MA in Classical Archaeology. Former Director of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Murder in the Harbour.
- Flemming Friborg, MA in Art History. Director of Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.
Plaster, Cult and the Classics ? Carl Jacobsen in the Service of Plaster.
- Troels Andersen, MA in Art History. Former Director of Silkeborg Museum
Out of Sight ? 1966-1995. A dark chapter in the history of the Cast Collection.
- Allis Helleland, MA. in Art History. Director of Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen.
The Copenhagen Cast Collection 1995-2002. Experience and status.
- Jan Zahle, PhD. in Classical Archaeology. Senior Research Fellow. Former Keeper of the Copenhagen Cast Collection.
What Actually Happened? Opening and closing the Copenhagen Cast Collection 1995-2002.
- Marie-Louise Berner, MA in Art History. Senior Research Fellow
A Stone in the Shoe. The Cast Collection in Numbers 1995-2002.
- Jan Zahle, PhD. in Classical Archaeology. Senior Research Fellow. Former Keeper of the Copenhagen Cast Collection.
The Copenhagen Cast Collection as an archive for sculptural understanding ? and its importance for experience, teaching and knowledge.
- Ernst Jonas Bencard, MA in Art History, Senior Research Fellow at Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen.
The Cast Collection Struck by Sculptural Illiteracy.
- Carsten Thau, MA in the History of Ideas. Professor at the School of Architecture, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
The Right Cast: plaster as art, copy and doctrine.
- Paul Zanker, PhD in Classical Archaeology. Former Professor at the University of Munich.
Space for Inspiration ? Bodies for Dreaming. Why Copenhagen needs its cast collection right now.
- Bjørn Nørgaard, artist. Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
I Love Casts.
- Martin Erik Andersen and Torben Kapper, artists. Both based in Copenhagen.
Interlude ? 3 Dialogues in the Cast Gallery.
- Stig Miss, MA in Art History. Director of Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen.
The Cast Collection ? One of the City?s Attractions?
- Jane Fejfer, MA in Classical Archaeology. External Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen.
Copenhagen as a City of Sculpture.
- Lars Bernhard Jørgensen, MSc, Managing Director of Wonderful Copenhagen
The Cast Collection Gives Copenhagen Perspective.
- Louise Cone, sculpture conservator.
From Dirt to Patina: the Cleaning of Plaster Casts in Denmark in a Historical Perspective.
- Jørgen Bau, art restorer. Former Head of Conservation at the Copenhagen Cast Collection.
Restoration of the Cast Collection.
- Eric Erlandsen ( 2003), sculptor and conservator.
The Cast Collection and the Restoration of Historical Sculptures.
- Rune Frederiksen, PhD in Classical Archaeology. Senior Research Fellow at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Communicating Casts ? The Educational Potential of the Cast Collection.
- Anders Brix, MAA MDD. Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
The Design Department of the Academy in the Cast Gallery.
DBK, Mimersvej 4, DK-4600 Køge
Afstøbningssamlingen. Død eller levende? København 2005
Price DKr 195,- incl. added-value tax + postage (Europe DKr 67,-)
Spejlinger i gips
København 2004. 504 pages and illustrations
In 2004 an exhibition was held at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen in occasion of its 250th anniversary. The exhibition showed a reconstruction of the original main hall of the Academy?s plaster cast collection as it was c. 1789-1828 combined with 10 original new sculptures in plaster and created for the exhibition. In adjacent rooms were shown paintings and drawings of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries that formed the basis for the reconstruction of the exhibition.The exhibition and the documentation have been published in a lavishly illustrated book (in Danish). It includes a full photo-documentation of the Academy?s present cast collection of more than 1000 pieces.
Kjerrman, P., B. Nørgård, J. Zahle & J. Bertelsen, ?Spejlinger i gips?, København 2004 (pp. 504)
250 DKr. + dispatch fee (DKr 38,75) incl. added-value tax + postage (Europe DKr 102,-)
Mail to Tina Fredebo, Schultz Distribution,
School of Fine Arts in Paris.
La chapelle de l'Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Paris
By Emmanuel SCHWAR, past Director. Lorsqu'il entre dans la chapelle de l'Ecole des beaux-arts de Paris, le promeneur de Saint-Germain-des-Prés est accueilli par le silence des moulages qui dorment depuis cent cinquante ans à l'abri de ce modeste musée. Mais des voix puissantes ont retenti ici, auxquelles notre petit ouvrage voudrait emprunter un peu de leur passion. Marguerite de Navarre, la bonne reine Margot, dédia ce temple à ses amours sanglantes et à sa foi en Dieu. Le révolutionnaire Alexandre Lenoir en fit le mythique et macabre Musée des Monuments français : les statues des rois exhumés proclamèrent en ce lieu une nouvelle sensibilité artistique. Ce double souvenir éclaire et colore l'intelligence du monument que nous décrivons. Ainsi Napoléon et Chateaubriand, les tout jeunes Michelet et Schopenhauer, Mérimée et Alexandre Dumas, Ingres, Delacroix et Gustave Moreau, sur les murs de cette église exécrée, virent la dispute des classiques et des modernes autour de l'héritage du Moyen âge et de la Renaissance ; ils y lurent les défis pathétiques lancés par Michel-Ange à Raphaël, par le génie français aux modèles italiens, par l'art à la mort, par l'imagination aux forces qui prétendent l'étouffer. On trouvera dans ce guide le simple catalogue des pièces exposées. Mais nous espérons aussi que le visiteur prendra parti dans les querelles successives que déroule sous ses yeux, de travée en travée, une leçon d'histoire dans la chapelle de l'Ecole des beaux-arts.
Editor :
Ecole Nat.sup.des Beaux-Arts
17 Quai Malaquais, F 75272 Paris cedex 06
Emmanuel Schwartz Tel. +33 1/47 03 50 00 - Fax +33 1/47 03 50 80
120 pages Format 14 cm x 24 cm Illustrations couleurs ISBN 2840561220
Musée des Monuments français
Le musée de sculpture comparée : naissance de l'histoire de l'art moderne
Actes du colloque "Le musée de sculpture comparée : l'invention d'un modèle au XIXe siècle" tenu à paris, au musée des Monuments français les 8 et 9 décembre 1999. Edition du patrimoine (Série Idées et Débats), 159 pages et illustrations.(150FF / 22,87 Euros)
ISBN 2-85822-597-4