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Casting One’s Belly in Plaster New Pregnancy Rite

Women around the country are taking plaster casts of their pregnant bellies and turning them into bowls, sculptures and other celebratory artworks memorializing their maternal bodies. (WOMENSENEWS)–It ...
The New York Times

In France, This Workshop Copies the World’s Great Sculptures

The Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn has molds of more than 6,000 artworks such as the “Venus de Milo” and Alexander the Great’s foot. An artisan at work in the Plaster Cast Workshop of the ...
Hyperallergic

Before 3D Prints There Were Plaster Copies

European cast making and exchange of plaster copies have played an essential role in the worship of Classical art in European and North American aesthetics, higher education, and architecture. In ...
Hackaday

Plaster Cast

3D printing is wonderful, but sometimes you just don’t want to look at a plastic piece. Beethoven’s bust wouldn’t look quite right in front of your secret door if it was bright orange PLA, after all. ...
insider.si.edu

Destroy the copy - plaster cast collections in the 19th-20th centuries demolition, defacement, disposal in Europe and beyond edited by Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler ...

Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček -- I. (Post)colonial contexts -- Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis -- The (mis)performance of cast collections / Henrik Holm -- The ...