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Title:

SECURING THE PAST
CONSERVATION IN ART, ARCHITECTURE AND LITERATURE

By:

Paul Eggert

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521725917

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9780521725910

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 December, 2008

Pages:

304

Description:

An investigation of the linked underlying theories behind the different arts and practices of restoring historic objects and texts.

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.

Illustrations:

29 b/w illus.

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Imprint:

Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Society for Textual Scholarship Richard J. Finneran Award 2011

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Returnable

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