Title & Author:

Historical and philosophical issues in the conservation of cultural heritage / edited by Nicholas Stanley Price, M. Kirby Talley, Jr., Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Conservation Institute, ©1996.

Description:

xvii, 500 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Series:

Readings in conservation

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-471) and index.
The eye's caress : looking, appreciation, and connoisseurship -- Original intent of the artist -- The emergence of modern conservation theory -- Historical perspective -- Restoration and anti-restoration -- Reintegration of losses -- Idea of patina -- The role of science and technology.
Foreword / Miguel Angel Corzo, Director, The Getty Conservation Institute -- Preface / Nicholas Stanley Price, former Deputy Director, Training Program, The Conservation Institute -- Note to the reader -- The eye's caress: looking, appreciation, and connoisseurship / M. Kirby Talley, Jr. -- The lamp of memory, I / John Ruskin -- Aesthetics and history in the visual arts / Bernard Berenson -- Art / Clive Bell -- Looking at pictures / Kenneth Clark -- The history of art as a humanistic discipline / Erwin Panofsky -- The modern cult of monuments: its essence and its development / Alois Riegl -- Principles of art history / Heinrich Wölfflin -- Italian painters of the Renaissance / Bernard Berenson -- Conversations with Berenson / Umberto Morra -- Fundamental laws of sculpture / John Ruskin -- From light into paint / E.H. Gombrich -- Of Turnerian mystery: secondly, willful / John Ruskin -- Rudiments of connoisseurship / Bernard Berenson -- On art and connoisseurship / Max J. Friedländer -- Connoisseurship / John Pope-Hennessy -- The nature of Gothic / John Ruskin -- The original intent of the artist / M. Kirby Talley, Jr. -- Art in transition / Albert Albano -- Crimes against the Cubists / John Richardson -- The autonomy of restoration: ethical considerations in relation to artistic concepts / Ernst van de Wetering -- The emergence of modern conservation theory / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- That mighty sculptor, time / Marguerite Yourcenar -- Restoration from the perspective of the humanities / Paul Philippot -- Theory of restoration, I / Cesare Brandi -- The integration of the image: problems in the restoration of monuments / Giovanni Carbonara -- Knowing how to "question" the object before restoring it / Albert France-Lanord -- Introduction to archaeological conservation / Marie Berducou -- Historical perspective / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- Historic preservation: philosophy, criteria, guidelines, I / Paul Philippot -- Degradation, conservation, and restoration of works of art: historical overview / R.H. Marijnissen -- Further materials for a history of conservation / The surgery of memory: ancient sculpture and historical restorations / Orietta Rossi Pinelli -- Restoration and anti-restoration / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- Restoration / Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc -- Manifesto of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings / William Morris -- The lamp of memory, II / John Ruskin -- Reintegration of losses / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- On restorations / Max J. Friedländer -- The problem of the integration of Lacunae in the restoration of paintings / Albert Philippot and Paul Philippot -- Theory of restoration, II / Cesare Brandi -- Problems of presentation / Paolo Mora, Laura Mora, and Paul Philippot -- Theory of restoration and methodological unity / Umberto Baldini -- Historic preservation: philosophy criteria, guidelines, II / Paul Philippot -- The idea of patina / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- The idea of patina and the cleaning of paintings / Paul Philippot -- Theory of restoration, III / Cesare Brandi -- The cleaning of pictures in relation to patina, varnish, and glazes / Cesare Brandi -- A review of the history and practice of patination p./ Phoebe Dent Weil -- The surface of objects and museum style / Ernst van de Wetering --- The role of science and technology / Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro -- Scientific research and the restoration of paintings / Paul Coremans -- The scientist's role in historic preservation with particular reference to stone conservation / Giorgio Torraca -- The science and art of conservation of cultural property / Giovanni Urbani -- Annotated bibliography -- About the authors -- Illustration credits.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This is the first comprehensive collection of texts on the conservation of art and architecture to be published in the English language. Designed for students of art history as well as conservation, the book consists of forty-five texts, some never before translated into English and many originally published only in obscure or foreign journals. The thirty major art historians and scholars represented raise questions such as when to restore, what to preserve, and how to maintain aesthetic character.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description
Publisher description

ISBN:

0892362502 (cloth)
9780892362509 (cloth)
0892363983 (paper)
9780892363988 (paper)

Subject:

KunstWerk
Art Conservation and restoration.
Architecture Conservation and restoration.
Art Conservation et restauration.
Architecture Conservation et restauration.
restoration (process)
Architektur
Konservierung
Kulturerbe
Restaurierung
Aufsatzsammlung
Kunstwerk
Cultuurgoed.
Restauratie.
Conservatie.
Filosofische aspecten.
Art Philosophy.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Stanley-Price, Nicholas.
Talley, Mansfield Kirby.
Melucco Vaccaro, Alessandra.
Price, Nicholas Stanley, 1947-
Getty Conservation Institute.
Readings in conservation.

Holdings:

Location: Library conservation office 130882
Call No.: ID N8555.H57 CONS; ID:97-B227
Status: Available