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100 _aEggert, Paul
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245 _aSecuring the past:
_b conservation in art, architecture and literature /
_cby Paul Eggert
260 _bCambridge University Press,
_c2009.
_aCambridge:
300 _axi, 290 p.
505 _a1. Introduction-- 2. The witness of historic buildings and the restoration of the churches-- 3. The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes-- 4. Forgery and authenticity: historical documents, literary works and paintings-- 5. Conservators and agency: their role in the work-- 6. Subtilising authorship: Rembrandt, scientific evidence and modern connoisseurship-- 7. Materialist, performance or literary Shakespeare?-- 8. Modes of editing literary works: conflicts in theory and practice-- 9. Readers and editors: new directions in scholarly editing-- 10. The editorial gaze and the nature of the work; Bibliography.
520 _aThe concept and practice of restoration in all its forms are 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.
650 _aConservation
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