Remediations: Photographs from Art Academies

First edition of Remediations: Photographs from Art Academies by Giulia Parlato and Tommaso Parrillo. First impression. Medium format softcover in new condition.

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From the mid-nineteenth century to the 1920s, the Academies of Fine Arts assembled photographic collections that, even today, remain surprisingly little known. Remediations: Photographs from Art Academies offers an innovative approach to this heritage, seeking to “activate” it through a dialogue between past and present. The title draws on a neologism from media studies, inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s observation that the content of one medium is always another medium. In this spirit, the volume foregrounds remediation through two intimately connected technologies of reproduction: the photographic documentation of artworks and plaster casts — each mirroring and amplifying the other, both emblematic of the logic of the copy...