Casts, imprints, and the deathliness of things: artifacts at the edge

• Autores: Marcia Pointon
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 96, Nº 2, 2014, págs. 170-195
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The practice of making death masks was extensive throughout Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet their interest to scholars has been confined to their preparatory role in the production of portrait sculpture, the dissemination of phrenology, and as a figure for the indexicality of photographic images. The meanings generated, past and present, by casts of faces and other body parts can be investigated by addressing their materiality. As three-dimensional artifacts, positives deriving from negatives, casts have been understood as deathly in that they present an absence. In what does this deathliness consist, and how is it communicated?