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		<title>The Purpose of Casts</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; The acquisition of casts was the order of business for American museums like the Corcoran Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, during the late nineteenth into the early twentieth centuries. &#160; Why collect casts? &#160; Edward Robinson, curator of the Boston Museum...]]></description>
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		<title>The Fake Bust of Julius Caesar</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; By: Bill Pierce Since the Reaissane, Julius Caesar (100-44 BCE) has held a poweful, yet controversial, fascination of western culture.  Could Rome&#8217;s Republican government have withstood its internal political crises had Caesar not destroyed it?  Or was the Republic in its death throes and was it only his seizure...]]></description>
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		<title>The Trip From New York</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the story of the two brave women who set out to the Big Apple in hopes of gathering plaster casts for the George Mason Collection in 2006. The following is the gripping tale of their dramatic adventure. &#160; &#160; Neophytes with &#8220;Good Chi&#8221; Written By: Lucy Miller and...]]></description>
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		<title>The Concrete Dancer: Is She an “Original”?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Ellen Layman A concrete Dancer was cast at GMU in 2004 from our plaster cast taken from an ancient Greek carved marble relief in Athens.  Casting is a process by which a sculpture or a relief is reproduced  through the use of molds. Our cast-maker, Nick Xhiku, arrived from...]]></description>
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		<title>How did the casts come to Mason?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened in 1880 on the east side of New York City’s Central Park, it was given an endowment to fund a collection of plaster casts molded from original sculptures in the great museums of Europe.  The Metropolitan assembled a superb collection of 2,600 plaster...]]></description>
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