Securing the past : conservation in art, architecture and literature / Paul Eggert.
"This book is the first concerted effort to examine together the linked philosophies of the different arts of preserving and uncovering the past: the restoration of buildings, conservation of works of art, and editing of literary works to retrieve their original or intended texts. By investigat...
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The witness of historic buildings and the restoration of the churches
- The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes
- Forgery and authenticity : historical documents, literary works, and paintings
- Conservators and agency : their role in the work
- Subtilising authorship : Rembrandt, scientific evidence, and modern connoisseurship
- Materialist, performance, or literary Shakespeare?
- Modes of editing literary works : conflicts in theory and practice
- Readers and editors : new directions in scholarly editing
- The editorial gaze and the nature of the work.