Fragility

Fragility

A History of Plaster

Morrison, Helen; Corbin, Alain

John Wiley and Sons Ltd

04/2025

88

Dura

Inglês

9781509565948

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Acknowledgements

History - from stone to plastic
1.The half-century of plaster
2. Plaster houses and poverty
3. Restoring ancient monuments
4. Plaster - allegory of a phantom century
5. Plaster casts and the art of the hollow
6. Immortalizing the dead in plaster
7. Ornaments and figurines: plaster within the home
8. The strange case of life-casting
9. Crumbling political regimes


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plaster; France; Alain Corbin; Alain Corbin's new book; what was plaster used for?; when was plaster introduced?; what is the history of plaster?; the age of plaster; cornice; moulding; plaster and poverty; plaster and houses; Napoleon's death mask; life-casting; plaster as the allegory of a phantom century; France's phantom century; plaster of Paris; nineteenth-century Paris; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Stone Age; 1815 to 1855; dust; decoration; beauty; Victor Hugo; long nineteenth century; after the French Revolution; Ancien Regime; French Empire; Louis XVII; Restoration; July Monarchy; French Republic; 1848 Revolution