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Conservation: principles, dilemmas and uncomfortable truths

Conservation: principles, dilemmas and uncomfortable truths
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ISBN 0367606267 (softcover)
9780367606268 (softcover)
Title Conservation : principles, dilemmas and uncomfortable truths / edited by Alison Richmond and Alison Bracker
Publisher Abingdon, Oxfordshire ; New York : Routledge, London : Victoria and Albert Museum, 2009
Physical desc. xviii, 250 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Note First issued in paperback 2020.
Published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Alison Bracker and Alison Richmond -- Auto-icons / Jonathan Rée -- 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.
Subject Historic preservation
Cultural property -- Protection
Conservation and restoration
Added name(s) Richmond, Alison editor
Bracker, Alison Lee editor
Added name(s) - Corporate Victoria and Albert Museum
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