Art and Archaeology

Abstract

‘An anonymous product of an impersonal craft’: that is how Rhys Carpenter characterized Greek sculpture in 1960, and it's an assessment that has long dominated the field. Carpenter was challenging the traditional workings of classical archaeology, not least its infatuation with individual ‘masters’. While responding to past precedent, however, his comments also looked forward in time, heralding a decidedly postmodern turn. From our perspective in 2020, six decades after his book was first published, Carpenter can be seen to anticipate what Roland Barthes would dub the ‘death of the author’: ‘the birth of the reader must be ransomed by the death of the author’, as Barthes put it.

Application of Calcium-Based Nanomaterials in Art Sculpture Reinforcement Technology

“…With the rapid development of nanotechnology, appropriate modification of traditional materials, with the help of special quantum effects, surface effects, and local field effects of nanoparticles, enables them to exhibit a series of properties different from ordinary crystalline and amorphous substances, making them better meet the requirements of cultural relics protection [14]. e development and application of nano-calcium hydroxide reinforcement abroad have been relatively advanced [15].…”

“…With the rapid development of nanotechnology, appropriate modification of traditional materials, with the help of special quantum effects, surface effects, and local field effects of nanoparticles, enables them to exhibit a series of properties different from ordinary crystalline and amorphous substances, making them better meet the requirements of cultural relics protection [ 14 ]. The development and application of nano-calcium hydroxide reinforcement abroad have been relatively advanced [ 15 ]. There are many laboratories that can prepare nano-calcium hydroxide in small batches and optimize it according to the characteristics of the reinforcement object, and some companies have launched a series of nano-calcium hydroxide curing agents with excellent performance [ 16 ].…”