Why are we seduced by the idea of the ‘original’ and drawn to the old, worn or ruined? Is the aura of a ‘thing’ bound to its materiality, or is its aura a social construct capable of migrating to other objects, replicas or reproductions? These questions lay the foundation for my practice-based PhD scholarship, which
Tag: #replicafutures
The perceived value of replicas has ebbed and flowed in different times and contexts, but this appears to have come full circle from their antiquarian origins, particularly for conservation, presentation and collections management with facsimiles possessing their own, connected, trajectories. The newly published New Futures for Replicas: Principles and Guidance for Museums and Heritage, featured
‘Does it matter that a monument is a concrete replica rather than an eighth-century original?’ So asks journalist Chris Green in a long read in The i newspaper on 18 July 2020, prompted by the issues raised in our book My Life as a Replica: St John’s Cross, Iona. He also mentions the guidance now
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