Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature - Hardcover

Eggert, Paul

 
9780521898089: Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521898080 ISBN 13: 9780521898089
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

We all have a stake in the past and in its tangible preservation, and we trust professionals to preserve our cultural heritage for the future. However, restoration in all its forms is entangled in many contemporary theoretical debates and problems. This book is the first concerted effort to examine together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigating a series of recent crises in each of these areas, Securing the Past shows how their underlying justifications relate closely to one another. Paul Eggert shows how they have been philosophically undermined by postmodern theories and charts another, richer way forward to a new future for the past.

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About the Author

Paul Eggert is Professor of English at the University of New South Wales at ADFA.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521898080
ISBN 13 
9780521898089
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
304

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