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In Italy a new practice began in the late 1960 in which artists introduced classical plaster casts into their works. This essay will show the historical significance of this phenomenon through the analysis of Jannis Kounellis’s and Giulio Paolini’s works. Then it compares their works with those of Giorgio de Chirico, who preferred to draw plaster figures and had a big influence on the younger artists, in an attempt to show that although there is a wide difference between Kounellis’s and Paolini’s uses of plaster casts, both of their works are expressive of the distance they kept from the academic tradition, one symbolized by the plaster cast.
