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Experience: I was hospitalised after being trapped in a full-body plaster cast

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Paul Fifield: ‘One of the firefighters arrived brandishing a camera.’Photograph: Mark Chilvers (Photograph: Mark Chilvers) In the ...
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German museum invites women to make plaster casts of their vulvas

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plaster casts of male genitalia are widespread, but the same is not - yet - true for vulvas, say the curators of a German museum ...
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Destroy the copy - plaster cast collections in the 19th-20th centuries demolition, defacement, disposal in Europe and beyond edited by Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler ...

Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis and Lorenz Winkler-Horaček -- I. (Post)colonial contexts -- Introduction / Annetta Alexandridis -- The (mis)performance of cast collections / Henrik Holm -- The ...
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In France, This Workshop Copies the World’s Great Sculptures

The Plaster Cast Workshop of the GrandPalaisRmn has molds of more than 6,000 artworks such as the “Venus de Milo” and Alexander the Great’s foot. An artisan at work in the Plaster Cast Workshop of the ...

9,000 years ago, people in the Levant covered skulls with plaster to remember their dead

A 9,000-year-old skull with a plaster face, unearthed in Israel, reveals ancient farming communities meticulously preserved their dead. This practice, seen across the Levant, involved reconstructing ...