Aftercast

Roithmayr, F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5425-3358 (2018) Aftercast. tenderbooks, London, pp186. ISBN 9781999712433

Abstract/Summary

Moulding and casting are widely used techniques in modern and contemporary art making. Their use and application can be found in many other areas of production and material transformation not immediately associated with art practices, and in times before casting became an acceptable form of sculptural production in its own right. Plaster as a material remains the same: its inherent properties and qualities don’t change. Moulding and casting are ancient techniques of giving and taking form and shape to objects and sculptures, and they continue to do so. And yet the way casts are symbolised, the way meaning and values are attributed to these works cast in plaster, has often shifted

Item Type	Book
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/78416
Refereed	No
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Arts and Communication Design > Art > Fine Art
Uncontrolled Keywords	plaster, plaster cast, cast collection, whiteness of plaster, mould, mould making, artist book, sculpture
Publisher	tenderbooks
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