Securing the past : conservation in Art, Architecture and Literature
Publication details: New York Cambridge University Press 2009Description: xi,290pISBN:- 9780521725910
- 363.69 EGG
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | CEPT Library General | Faculty of Architecture | 363.69 EGG | Available | 023735 |
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Contents
List of Illustration
Preface ix
1 Introduction 1
2 The witness of historic buildings and the restoration of the churches 19
3 The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes 41
4 Forgery and authenticity: historical documents, literary works and paintings 61
5 Conservators and agency: their role in the work 86
6 Subtilising authorship: Rembrandt, scientific evidence and modern connoisseurship 109
7 Materialist, performance or literary Shakespeare? 131
8 Modes of editing literary works: conflicts in theory and practice 154
9 Readers and editors: new directions in scholarly editing 185
10 The editorial gaze and the nature of the work 214
Notes 241
Bibliography 265
Index 285
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