ART MUSEUMS, DO YOU COPY? STANDARDS ON THE CARE AND HANDLING OF FACSIMILES EXHIBITED IN ART MUSEUMS
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Authors
PARK, JOCELYN
Issue Date
2009
Type
Capstone
Language
en
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Abstract
This masters project is a study of facsimiles exhibited in art museums in the United States. The topic is prevalent in the majority of art museums, calling into question the role of today's art museums as a repository of authentic, original objects of the world. Art museums create and exhibit facsimiles for reasons varying from the original's fragility to political restraints limiting access to the original. When art museums display facsimiles to the public, the facsimiles become part of the museums' history, and sometimes, part of the museums' collections. This importance makes it necessary for art museums to consider the care delivered to these facsimiles. For the purpose of this project, I consider facsimiles to be replicas, modem reproductions, exhibition copies, and reconstructions of original art (definitions of terms are in a glossary in Appendix A). For art museums in the United States with any of the previously listed types of facsimiles, this topic has great relevance.