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The Ethics of Dust: Trajan’s Column

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Description: The Ethics of Dust: Trajan’s Column
TitleThe Ethics of Dust: Trajan’s Column
Creator nameOtero-Pailos, Jorge
Creator nationality/cultureSpanish
Creator roleArtist
Creation date2015
Object typeInstallation
MaterialsLatex and pollution transferred from Trajan’s Column plaster cast
DimensionsUnknown
LocationCollection of the artist
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsTrajan's Column (Rome, Italy)PollutionInstallations (Art)
Statusshown installed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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Coda: Lost Continents, Fluctuating Objects
Mari Lending
Description: Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction
Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction
~~In 1764, Johann Joachim Winckelmann concluded his History of the Art of Antiquity by characterizing this history in the making as a history of destruction. He compared his account of the art of antiquity to a contemplation of the collapse of...
Author
Mari Lending
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 2017 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.224-237
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00311.7
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22559&redirecttoanchor=61387
Chapter subject tags:Architectural castsArt--ReproductionLe Corbusier, 1887-1965
Ruskin’s Global Legacy
Tim Barringer, Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, Judith Stapleton, Courtney Skipton Long
Description: Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin
Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin
John Ruskin’s fervent belief that art and architecture should morally instruct through their design and mode of production inspired Arts and Crafts movements around the world, from Britain and the United States to Japan. His social and political theories, furthermore, have been mobilized globally in ways he...
Author
Tim Barringer, Tara Contractor, Victoria Hepburn, Judith Stapleton, Courtney Skipton Long
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Copyright© 2019 Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.269-313
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00234.009
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Chapter subject tags:Arts and crafts movement--Great BritainLabor movement--Great BritainEnvironmental degradation in artPollutionInstallations (Art)
Epilogue—Dust to Dust: Jorge Otero-Pailos after John Ruskin
Courtney Skipton Long
Description: Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin
Unto This Last: Two Hundred Years of John Ruskin
“Pollution,” says contemporary artist and architectural preservationist Jorge Otero-Pailos, “is one of our most important products.”The author is...
Author
Courtney Skipton Long
PublisherYale Center for British Art
Copyright© 2019 Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.87-95
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00234.005
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20934&redirecttoanchor=61387
Chapter subject tags:Otero-Pailos, JorgeInstallations (Art)Environmental degradation in artPollutionPlaster casts

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