Securing the past
Subtitle: conservation in art, architecture, and literature
By: Paul Eggert.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521898089; 9780521725910
Subjects: Arts and history; Historic preservation; Authenticity (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The witness of historic buildings and the restoration of the churches; title: The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes; title: Forgery and authenticity : historical documents, literary works, and paintings; title: Conservators and agency : their role in the work; title: Subtilising authorship : Rembrandt, scientific evidence, and modern connoisseurship; title: Materialist, performance, or literary Shakespeare?; title: Modes of editing literary works : conflicts in theory and practice; title: Readers and editors : new directions in scholarly editing; title: The editorial gaze and the nature of the work.