Main entry:

Eggert, Paul, 1951-

Title & Author:

Securing the past : conservation in art, architecture and literature / Paul Eggert.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Description:

xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
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buildings and the restoration of the churches -- The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes -- Forgery and authenticity : historical documents, literary works, and paintings -- Conservators and agency : their role in the work -- Subtilising authorship : Rembrandt, scientific evidence, and modern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.

Summary:

"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 demonstrates that they have been philosophically undermined by postmodern theories and finally points the way to a new future for the past."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780521898089
9780521725910 (pbk.)
0521898080
0521725917 (pbk.)

Subject:

Arts and history.
Historic preservation.
Authenticity (Philosophy)
Arts et histoire.
Préservation historique.
Authenticité (Philosophie)
historic preservation.
Kulturgüterschutz
Konservierung
Kulturerbe
Kunstwerk
Restaurierung
Sakralbau
Art Conservació i restauració
Arquitectura Conservació i restauració

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266445
Call No.: BIB 198302
Status: Available