The Monumental Challenge of Preservation : The Past in a Volatile World /

The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments--movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible--of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, van...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cloonan, Michele Valerie, 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Cultural property > Conservation and restoration.
Historic buildings > Conservation and restoration.
Monuments > Conservation and restoration.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : we are what we preserve--and don't preserve
  • A tale of monuments in two cities
  • To destroy culture : Raphael Lemkin's lessons about genocide and how they relate to the preservation of cultural heritage
  • Documenting cultural heritage in Syria
  • Collecting as preservation
  • Worth dying for? : Richard Nickel and historic preservation in Chicago
  • What are we really trying to preserve : the original or the copy?
  • It takes a (virtual) village : some thoughts on digital preservation
  • Sustainable preservation
  • Preservation : enduring or ephemeral
  • Epilogue : Berlin as a city of reconciliation and preservation.

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