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Conservation : principles, dilemmas and uncomfortable truths / edited by Alison Richmond and Alison Bracker.

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"Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths presents multi-perspective critical analyses of the ethics and principles that guide the conservation of works of art and design, archaeological artefacts, buildings, monuments, and heritage sites on behalf of society. Contributors f...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Corporate Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
Other Authors: Richmond, Alison, Bracker, Alison Lee
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : London : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann ; In association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Historic preservation.
Cultural property > Protection.
Table of Contents:
  • Auto-icons / Jonathan Ree
  • The basis of conservation ethics / Jonathan Ashley-Smith
  • The aims of conservation / Chris Caple
  • The reconstruction of ruins: principles and practice / Nicholas Stanley-Price
  • Minimal intervention revisited / Salvador Munoz Vinas
  • Practical ethics v2.0 / Jonathan Kemp
  • Conservation principles in the international context / Jukka Jokilehto
  • The concept of authenticity expressed in the treatment of wall paintings in Denmark / Isabelle Brajer
  • The development of principles in paintings conservation: case studies from the restoration of Raphael's art / Cathleen Hoeniger
  • A critical reflection on Czechoslovak conservation-restoration: its theory and methodological approach / Zuzana Bauerova
  • The problem of Patina: thoughts on changing attitudes to old and new things / Helen Clifford
  • Archaeological conservation: scientific practice or social process? / Elizabeth Pye
  • Conservation and cultural significance / Miriam Clavir
  • The cultural dynamics of conservation principles in reported practice / Dinah Eastop
  • Why do we conserve? Developing understanding of conservation as a cultural construct / Simon Cane
  • Heritage, values, and sustainability / Erica Avrami
  • Ethics and practice: Australian and New Zealand conservation contexts / Catherine Smith and Marcelle Scott
  • Conservation, access and use in a museum of living cultures / Marian A. Kaminitz and W. Richard West
  • The challenge of installation art / Glenn Wharton and Harvey Molotch
  • Contemporary museums of contemporary art / Jill Sterrett
  • White walls: installations, absence, iteration and difference / Tina Fiske.

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