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portada Echoes, Ripples, Wake. Casting Art and Flesh
Type
Physical Book
Year
2026
Language
English
Pages
250
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
24x16 cm
ISBN13
9783112254943

Echoes, Ripples, Wake. Casting Art and Flesh

Yaëlle Biro;Noémie Etienne (Author) · De Gruyter Oldenbourg · Hardcover

Echoes, Ripples, Wake. Casting Art and Flesh - Yaëlle Biro;Noémie Etienne

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Synopsis "Echoes, Ripples, Wake. Casting Art and Flesh"

At the intersection of art history, anthropology, and material studies, Echoes, Ripples, Wake: Casting Art and Flesh offers a critical reappraisal of plaster casts. Long dismissed as secondary objects—mere copies, tools, or pedagogical aids—casts are approached here as polymorphous, polysemic artefacts whose meanings shift across time, space, and context. Through a wide range of international case studies, from the Renaissance to the digital age, the volume interrogates replication, authenticity, canon formation, and the circulation of forms and images.
Contributors examine casts made from artworks, architecture, and human bodies, revealing them as sites of contact between art and science, memory and violence, creation and appropriation. Particular attention is paid to colonial and racialized casting practices, as well as to the afterlives of casts in museums, archives, and contemporary restitution debates. Conceiving casts as a series of echoes and ripples radiating from an initial act of contact, the book proposes a renewed theoretical framework for understanding casts not as subordinate to originals, but as generative objects that actively shape knowledge, heritage, and cultural imaginaries.



Sie wollen noch mehr über unsere neue Reihe erfahren? Hier geht es zur Präsentation von ‘Traces’ mit Iman Elghonemi und Mariama De Brito Henn.

Spurenlesen heißt, vergangene Ereignisse zu verstehen, Abwesenheiten zu erfassen, die Gegenwart zu hinterfragen und die mögliche Zukunft zu antizipieren. Spuren finden sich in Sprachen und Ritualen, in Rezepten und Praktiken, in Kunst und Kultur. Wir wollen Spuren und ihren Lesarten nachforschen, denn sie spielen ihre Rolle bei der Gründung und Legitimation von Gemeinschaften. Unser Ansatz ist transdisziplinär, daher beinhaltet die Reihe Arbeiten, die sich mit materieller Kultur, Architektur, Kunst, Monumenten, Gegenmonumenten, Texten, Diskursen und Performanzen befassen, und zwar ohne chronologische oder geografische Einschränkungen.

Grasping traces means understanding past events, seizing absences, questioning the present, and apprehending the coming of potential futures. Traces are found in languages and rituals, in recipes and practices, in art and culture. We aim to explore such traces and their readings, because they play a role in inventing and authorizing communities. Our approach is a transdisciplinary one. Thus, the series includes texts centered around material culture, architecture, art, monument, counter-monument, discourses, and performances, with no chronological nor geographical limitations.

Saisir les traces, c'est comprendre les événements passés, se confronter aux absences, interroger le présent et appréhender l'avènement de futurs potentiels. Les traces se trouvent dans les langues et les rituels, dans les recettes et les pratiques, dans l'art et la culture. Notre objectif est d'explorer ces traces ainsi que leurs différentes lectures, parce que celles-ci jouent un rôle dans l'invention et la légitimité des communautés. Notre approche est transdisciplinaire; la série publie des textes centrés sur la culture matérielle, l'architecture, l'art, les monuments, les contre-monuments, les discours et les performances, sans limitation chronologique ni géographique.

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat:

Nebahat Avcioglu, The City University of New York

Yaëlle Biro, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Eva Kernbauer, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Wien

Antje Flüchter, Universität Bielefeld

Yuko Lippit, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Noor Nieftagodien, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Moira Patricia Perez, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Thomas Sandkühler, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Marie-Karine Schaub, Université Paris Est

Didier Houenoude, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin



Grasping traces means understanding past events, seizing absences, questioning the present, and apprehending the coming of potential futures. Traces are found in languages and rituals, in recipes and practices, in art and culture. We aim to explore such traces and their readings, because they play a role in inventing and authorizing communities. Our approach is a transdisciplinary one.

Spurenlesen heißt, vergangene Ereignisse zu verstehen, Abwesenheiten zu erfassen, die Gegenwart zu hinterfragen und die mögliche Zukunft zu antizipieren. Spuren finden sich in Sprachen und Ritualen, in Rezepten und Praktiken, in Kunst und Kultur. Wir wollen Spuren und ihren Lesarten nachforschen, denn sie spielen ihre Rolle bei der Gründung und Legitimation von Gemeinschaften.

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