All things museums, photography, and digital cultures. AHRC CDP PhD Researcher (NCL/V&A)
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Keynote speaker Dr Sally Foster is sharing about her research on Iona’s 1970 concrete St John’s Cross replica @lastimpression_ #lastingimpressions
‘up to my neck in replicas’ - senses of ownership and identity wrapped up in the reproduction of Iona crosses, allowing people to ‘buy bits of Iona’ to take away - the human story adds sense of authenticity #lastingimpressions19
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Interesting to hear that the #cast of Trajan's Column at @V_and_A could actually be considered as more 'authentic' than the original in Rome, which has endured significant erosion since the cast was made around 1864 @lastimpression_ #LastingImpressions19 vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t…
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The Ruthwell cross, whos inclusion of text upon its decoration 'speaks' to the viewer as it looks down upon them.
A powerful description of a humanised 'aura' and the anthropological value of these incredible objects.
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Production, creativity and craft important in ideas of authenticity and appreciating replicas as things in their own right
Emphasising replicas as handmade and crafted objects affects their perceived value #lastingimpressions19
Lee Robert McStein delivering the third paper of our second session on the Curious Case of the Deir el Bahari Casts at Manchester Museum #lastingimpressions19 @lastimpression_
After hearing about different processing of making replicas in our first panel, @Monument_Men discusses processes of understanding casts, cleaning, preparing and inspecting casts before/as part of using photogrammetry techniques #lastingimpressions19
How does where objects are kept after their value? In store = less valuable than on display? Does being a copy magnify reduced perceptions of value?! Issues of space also affecting perceptions of objects #lastingimpressions
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Super excited to see this paper - I adore the @V_and_A Cast Courts. For those of you who have visited, how 'authentic' do you consider the casts to be? What was your reaction when you saw them? I'm still awed every time I visit @lastimpression_ #lastingimpressions19
Becky Knott from @V_and_A sharing about the Museum’s copy collection, the afterlives of replicas and the wonderful Cast Courts reopened in December 2018 #lastingimpressions19
Important to declare and celebrate copies for what they are, new interpretation helps visitors to perceive value of casts and copies as objects in their own rights - although limits with word counts on museum object labels a familiar problem! #lastingimpressions19
Use of electrotype copies of museum objects in film industry is considered as adding authenticity - just one of the display narratives in the Cast Court displays that helps encourage visitor discussion of replicas #lastingimpressions19
A copy of a copy of a copy! Tracing the object biographies of replicas and the changing status of casts in museums over the centuries #lastingimpressions19
Attributions of value and of aura are influx - casts once dismissed and labelled as fakes now considered as ‘top ten’ items in the museum #lastingimpressions19
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Mould making was another concern. A meeting at the British Museum helped Kate understand the possibilities of making piece moulds from jesmonite. Silicone was used for the head. #lastingimpressions19
