Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage

by Nicholas Price (Editor), M. Kirby Talley (Editor), Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro (Editor)

Overview

This volume 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-six 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. Excerpts have been selected from the following books and essays: John Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architecture; Bernard Berenson, Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts; Clive Bell, The Aesthetic Hypothesis; Cesare Brandi, Theory of Restoration; Kenneth Clark, Looking at Pictures; Erwin Panofsky, The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline; E. H. Gombrich, Art and Illusion; Marie Cl. Berducou, The Conservation of Archaeology; and Paul Philippot, Restoration from the Perspective of the Social Sciences. The fully illustrated book also contains an annotated bibliography and an index.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606065273
Publisher:	J. Paul Getty Trust, The
Publication date:	09/23/2016
Series:	Readings in Conservation
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	520
Sales rank:	273,888
File size:	41 MB
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About the Author

Nicholas Stanley Price is former deputy director of the Training Program at the Getty Conservation Institute.