Securing the past : conservation in art, architecture and literature / Paul Eggert.
By: Eggert, Paul
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521898089; 9780521725910; 0521898080; 0521725917Subject(s): Arts and history | Historic preservation | Authenticity (Philosophy)DDC classification: 363.69 LOC classification: CC135 | .E38 2009| Item type | Home library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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British Museum | Conservation and Scientific Research | Conservation & Scientific Research | CC135.E38 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00055365 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-284) and index.
Introduction -- The witness of historic buildings and the restoration of the churches -- The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes -- Forgery and authenticity : historical documents, literary works, and paintings -- Conservators and agency : their role in the work -- Subtilising authorship : Rembrandt, scientific evidence, and modern connoisseurship -- Materialist, performance, or literary Shakespeare? -- Modes of editing literary works : conflicts in theory and practice -- Readers and editors : new directions in scholarly editing -- The editorial gaze and the nature of the work.