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'Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths' presents multi-perspective critical analyses of the ethics and principles that guide the conservation of works of art and design, archaeological artefacts, buildings, monuments, and heritage sites on behalf of society. Contributors from the fields of philosophy, sociology, history, art and design history, museology, conservation, architecture, and planning and public policy address a wide range of conservation principles, practices, and theories from the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, encouraging the reader to make comparisons across subjects and disciplines. By wrestling with and offering ways of disentangling the ethical dilemmas confronting those who maintain and sustain cultural heritage for today and tomorrow, 'Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths' provides an essential reference text for conservation professionals, museum and heritage professionals, art and cultural historians, lecturers and students, and all others invested in cultural heritage theories and practices. Alison Richmond, as a Senior Conservator in the Victoria and Albert Museum and Deputy Head of the Conservat

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Author

Alison Richmond; Alison Lee Bracker; Victoria and Albert Museum

Publisher

Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum London; Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann; In Association with the Victoria & Albert Museum

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781136441691

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Antiques & Collectibles, Science, Art