Year: 2018
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: In answer to the question raised by the conference, Are our Conservation-Restoration Theories and Practice ready for the 21st Century?, this paper advocates an opening to concepts coming from disciplines outside the conservation world, in order to address old and new heritage challenges from a fresh perspective.These concepts are not supposed to replace tools inherited from 20th Century theoreticians, but to unite with them in a broader toolbox dedicated to conservation professionals.Considering recent reconstruction projects as a magnifying mirror of current heritage dilemmas, the paper, using texts written in a totally different context by Anglo-Saxon logicians, concentrates, as an illustration, on the ways in which intentions underpinning a reconstruction can affect the very identity of the object or monument concerned.
Source: ORBi (University of Liège)
Authors: Houbart, Claudine, Dawans, Stéphane
Institution: University of Liège
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: Université de Liège
OpenAlex ID: W6980704364