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Sculptures hors contexte
€ 18.29 tax included
Series
Conférences et colloquesTechnical details
168 pages, paperback with flaps, 16 x 24 cm, 100 black-and-white illustrations.
Publication date
1996Related event
Proceedings of the symposium held at the Musée du Louvre on April 29, 1994.
ISBN French2-11-003687-7
French only
Co-publisher(s)
La Documentation française
Most of the sculptures found in public collections today come from separated or dispersed sets. The presentation of these works poses a number of problems: should they be treated as isolated pieces that have acquired some kind of aesthetic autonomy? Or, on the contrary, should the original context be recreated or restored? What benefit can be derived from hypotheses when our knowledge of the original arrangements is imperfect or conjectural?