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The Ancient Sculpture Association
The Ancient Sculpture Association
The Ancient Sculpture Association is an international platform aiming
to promote the study of ancient sculpture. In universities around the
world, sculpture has a somewhat dusty image, as a topic that used to be
in vogue in nineteenth-century archaeological scholarship. That this
image is unjustified is clear from exciting recent studies in both the
appearance and meaning of ancient sculpture. Statues had and have a life
of their own, which makes them invaluable tools in studying the society
that produced them, and teaches us much about people of the past, as
well as present.
The importance of bringing the fascination of ancient sculpture back
to both general and specialist audiences has become clear over the past
years by the rapid loss of ancient statues to purposeful destruction in
Africa and the Near East, as well as to looting all over the world.
Sculpture, like other ancient artefacts, tells us where we come from,
and its preservation is the preservation of our pasts.
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