Conservation: principles, dilemmas and uncomfortable truths / edited by A Bracker

Contributor(s):

Bracker, A [Ed.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, 2009. Amsterdam:Description: xviii, 250 pISBN:

9780750682015

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.69 CON

Contents:

1.Auto-icons / Jonathan Ree -- 2.The basis of conservation ethics / Jonathan Ashley-Smith -- 3.The aims of conservation / Chris Caple -- 4.The reconstruction of ruins: principles and practice / Nicholas Stanley-Price -- 5.Minimal intervention revisited / Salvador Munoz Vinas -- 6.Practical ethics v2.0 / Jonathan Kemp -- 7.Conservation principles in the international context / Jukka Jokilehto -- 8.The concept of authenticity expressed in the treatment of wall paintings in Denmark / Isabelle Brajer -- 9.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.

Summary: Wrestling with and offering ways of disentangling the ethical dilemmas confronting those who maintain and sustain cultural heritage for today and tomorrow, this work is suitable for conservation professionals, museum and heritage professionals, art and cultural historians, and all others invested in cultural heritage theories and practices.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB F-2	Non Fiction	363.69 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000756

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1.Auto-icons / Jonathan Ree --
2.The basis of conservation ethics / Jonathan Ashley-Smith --
3.The aims of conservation / Chris Caple --
4.The reconstruction of ruins: principles and practice / Nicholas Stanley-Price --
5.Minimal intervention revisited / Salvador Munoz Vinas --
6.Practical ethics v2.0 / Jonathan Kemp --
7.Conservation principles in the international context / Jukka Jokilehto --
8.The concept of authenticity expressed in the treatment of wall paintings in Denmark / Isabelle Brajer --
9.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.

Wrestling with and offering ways of disentangling the ethical dilemmas confronting those who maintain and sustain cultural heritage for today and tomorrow, this work is suitable for conservation professionals, museum and heritage professionals, art and cultural historians, and all others invested in cultural heritage theories and practices.

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