For articles that can be found on the web a link to the web-site is given.
Articles not available on the web are collected in a compendium that can be obtained from Akademika kopi-utsalg.
Text books
Caple, C. 2000. Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge. THE STUDENT NEEDS TO BUY THIS BOOK. THERE ARE A FEW COPIES IN THE LIBRARY.
Lecture 1: Why is cultural heritage preserved? The occurrence and development of heritage preservation.
Caple, C. 2000.Chapter 1 and 2: : ‘Perception, judgement and learning and Reasons for preserving the past’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp.1-28.
Ahmad, Y. 2006. The scope and definitions of heritage From tangible to Intangible in International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, May 2006, pp. 292–300.
Belk, R.W. 1990. The role of possession in constructing and maintaining a sense of past, in Advances in Consumer Research, Volume 17, eds. M.E. Goldberg, G. Gorn, R.W. Pollay, Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research, pp. 669-676 (visited 17.04.2012).
ICOM News, No.2, 2004, The definition of the museum
Lewis, G.D., 2012. The history of museums, i Encyclopaedia Britannica, (visited 16.04.2012).
UNESCO, 2012. World heritage (visited 17.04.2012)
UNESCO, 2012. The World Heritage Convention (visited 17.04.2012)
Total: ca 60 pages
Lecture 2: The nature and history of conservation.
Caple, C. 2000.’Chapter 3: ‘The nature of conservation’ and Chapter 4: ‘History of conservation’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp.29-45 and 46-58.
ICOM Committee for Conservation 1984. The Conservator-Restorer. A definition of the Profession. ca. 3 pages.
* Muñoz Viñas, S. 2005. ‘Chapter 1: What is Conservation’, i Contemporary Theory of Conservation, Amsterdam:Elsevier, pp. 1-25.
* Keck, S. 1996. ‘Further Materials for a History of Conservation’, i (Red) Price, S. et.al. Historical and philosophical issues in the conservation of cultural heritage, Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, pp. 281-287.
* Larsen, R. 1998. ’The science of conservation – restoration’, in 25 years School of Conservation, the Jubilee Symposium Preprints 18-20 May 1998, København: Det kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, pp. 77-85.
Ward, P. 1986. The nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time, Chapter 1-3. Getty Conservation Institute, Marina del Rey, (visited 17.04.2012)
Charter
The Athens Charter for the Restoration of Historic Monuments, 1931
Total: 77 pages + charter
Lecture 3: The meaning of objects
* Pye, E. 2001. ‘Chapter 4: The meaning of objects’, in Caring for the past. Issues in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, London: James and James, pp.57-76.
* Baer, N. 1998. ’Does Conservation Have Value?’, in 25 years School of Conservation, the Jubilee Symposium Preprints 18-20 May 1998, København: Det kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, pp. 15-20.
* Belk, R.W. 1994. ‘Collectors and collecting’, (ed) Susan M. Pearce, Interpreting objects and collections, London: Routledge, pp.317-326.
* Jokilehto, J. 1985. ‘Authenticity in Restoration Principles and Practices’, i (Red) Steiner-Kiljunen, K. Konservering igår och idag. Nordiska konservatorförbundets X kongrss, Finland 10-15.6 1985, pp. 19-33.
Taylor, J and Cassar, M. 2008. ‘Representation and intervention: the symbiotic relationship of conservation and value’, in Conservation and Access, Contributions to the London Congress 15-19 September 2008, pp. 7-11.
* Pearce, S. 1995. ‘Collecting as medium and message’, in (ed) Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Museum, Media and Message, London, Routledge, pp15-23.
Total: 73 pages
Lecture 4: Conservation ethics and theory
Caple, C. 2000. Chapter 5: Conservation Ethics, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 59-69.
E.C.C.O. professional guidelines and code of ethics 1-4.
ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums
Schiessl, U. 1995. ‘The Development of the Profession and its ethical rules’, (ed) Rötheli-Mariotti, et.al. The Restoration of Works of Art. Legal and Ethical Aspects, Geneva: Geneva Art Law Centre, pp. 203-229.
Sease, C. 1998.'Codes of Ethics for Conservation' , International Journal of Cultural Property, vol. 7 number 1,1998, p. 98-115.
Muñoz Viñas, S. 2002. Contemporary Theory of Conservation, in (ed) N. Streeton, Reviews in Conservation, The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, London, pp. 25-34. [Online]. Accessible from www.viks.sk/chk/reviews3022534.doc (visited 17.04.2012).
Eastop, D. 2011. 'Conservation practice as enacted ethics', in (ed) J. Marstine, The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum, Routledge, London, pp. 426-434.
The Burra Charter (The Australian ICOMOS Charter for the conservation if Places of Cultural Significance 1979 The Burra Charter.pdf
The declaration of Dresden, Reconstruction of Monuments Destroyed by War
The Nara document of authenticity, 1994
The declaration of San Antonio, 1996
Total: ca 86 pages + charters
Lecture 5: Investigating and recording objects
Caple, C. 2000. ‘Chapter 6: Objects: Their recording and investigation’, i Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 70-89.
Caple, C. 2006. Chapter 1: ‘Investigating objects. Theories and approaches’, in Objects. Reluctant witnesses to the past, London and New York: Routledge, pp.1-32.
Ianna, C. 2001. ‘Non-destructive techniques used in material conservation’, in 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, Brisbane, Australia, 17-21 September
Moore, M. 2001. Conservation Documentation and the implications of digitisation, Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, Issue 7. [Online](visited 19.04.2012).
Higham, T. 1999. Radiocarbon WEB-info
J.Arneborg1, J.Heinemeier2, N. Lynnerup3, H.L.Nielsen2, N. Rud2 and Á.E. Sveinbjörnsdóttir, 2002. C-14 dating and the disappearance of Norsemen from Greenlan in Europhysics News, MayJune 2002, pp. 77-80.
Miles, D., Worthington, M, Bridge, M. Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory Section: introduction.
Further reading:
Conservation Perspectives. The GCI Newsletter. Collections Research, spring 2010. [Online]. Accessible from http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/newsletters/pdf/v25n1.pdf (visited 17.04.2012)
Example Conservation treatment report Ger van Elk: The wider the Flatter, 1972 [Online]. Accesible from http://www.inside-installations.org/OCMT/mydocs/The%20Wider%20the%20Flatter%2019%2011%2008.pdf (visited 19.04.2012)
Total: ca.100 pages
Lecture 6: Processes of conservation
Caple, C. 2000. Chapter 7: ‘Cleaning’, chapter 8: ‘Stabilization’ and chapter 9: ‘Restoration’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 90-139.
Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 90-139.
Matero, F. 2000. ‘Ethics and Policy in Conservation’. GCI Newsletter, No. 15.1, Spring 2000, Getty Conservation Institute.
Case-studies Conservation Journal V&A Lenker til artiklene finnes i fronter-rommet
Total: ca. 60 pages
Lecture 7: Using collections. The balance between preservation and use.
Caple, C. 2000. Chapter 10: ’In working condition’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 140-151. *Keene, S. 2005. Chapter 3: ‘Collections’, in Fragments of the World. Uses of Museum Collections, Amsterdam, Elsevier, pp. 25-44.
*Keene, S. 1994. Objects as systems: A new challenge for conservation, in (ed.) Andrew Oddy, Restoration: Is it Acceptable?, British Museum, Occasional Paper 90, pp. 19-25. Chatzigogas, J. 2005. 'The challenges in reconciling the requirements of faith and conservation in Mount Athos, in (eds) H. Stovel, N. Stanley-Price and R. Killick, Conservation of Living Religious Heritage, Ppaers from the ICCROM 2003 Forum on Living Religious Heritage: conserving the sacred, ICCROM, Rome, pp. 67-73. [Online]. Accessible from http://www.iccrom.org/pdf/ICCROMICS03ReligiousHeritage_en.pdf
Nardi, R. 1999. Going public: a new approach to conservation education, Museum International 201, pp.44-50.
Périer-D’Ieteren, C. 1998. Tourism and conservation. I Museum International 50(4), Oxford: Blackwelll publishers, pp. 5-14.
Peters, R. and Romanek, D. 2008. ‘Approaches to access: factors and variables’, in Conservation and Access, Contributions to the London Congress 15-19 September 2008, pp.1-6.
Wressnig, F. 1999. The professional guide: building bridges between conservation and tourism. Museum International 201, pp. 40-43
Total: 78 pages
Lecture 8. Introduction to preventive conservation and agents of deterioration
(video) Caple, C. 2000. Chapter 11.1 Preventive conservation: ’In working condition’, in Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, p. 152.
*Bradley, S. 1994 ’Chapter 6: Do objects have a finite lifetime?’, in (Ed) Simon J.Knell, Care of Collections, London: Routledge, pp. 51-59.
*Bradley, S. 2003. ’Preventive conservation: the research legacy’, in (Ed) Townsend, J. et.al. Conservation Science 2002, Papers from the conference held in Edinburgh, Scotland 22-24 May 2002, pp. 3-7.
*S. Knell, 1994. ‘Introduction: The context of collections care’, in (ed.) Simon J. Knell, Care of collections, London and New York: Routledge, 1-10.
Lewin, J. 1992. Preventive Conservation. GCI Newsletter 7 (1), pp.4-7
Kaplan, E. et.al. 2005. Integrating preventive conservation into a collections move and rehousing project at the national museum of the American Indian, JAIC, Vol 44, Nr.3, 217-232
Michalski, S. 1994. ‘A systematic approach to preservation. Description and integration with other museum activities’, in (Eds.) Roy Ashok and Perry Smith, Preventive Conservation. Practice Theory and research, Preprints of the Contributions to the Ottawa Congress, 12-16 September, pp.8-11.
*Staniforth, S. 2006. ‘Agents of deterioration’, in The National Trust Manual of Housekeping. The care of collections in historic houses open to the public. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp.45-53.
Further reading: (ikke i Kompendium)
Pye, E. 2001. ‘Chapter 5: ‘Change in materials and objects’, in Caring for the past. Issues in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, London: James and James, pp.77-98.
Total: 78 pages
Lecture 9: Stewardship, an integral approach to responsible use of collections
Caple, C. 2000. Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge, pp. 63-69, 152-181, 200-206.
The Burra Charter Australian ICOMOS Charter for the conservation if Places of Cultural Significance 1979). Michalski, S. 1994. ‘A systematic approach to preservation. Description and integration with other museum activities’, in (Eds.) Roy Ashok and Perry Smith, Preventive Conservation. Practice Theory and research, Preprints of the Contributions to the Ottawa Congress, 12-16 September, pp.8-11
*Oddy, A. 1999., ‘Does reversibility exist?’, in : (eds.) A. Oddy and S. Carroll, Reversibility – does it exist?, British Museum Occasional Paper nr. 135, British Museum Press, London, pp.1-5.
*Smith R., D. 1999. ‘Reversibility: a questionable philosophy” in A. Oddy and S. Carroll, Reversibility – does it exist?, British Museum Occasional Paper nr. 135, British Museum Press, London, pp. 99-103.
*Palazzi, S. 1999. ‘Reversibility: Dealing with a ghost’. , in A. Oddy and S. Carroll, Reversibility – does it exist?, British Museum Occasional Paper nr. 135, British Museum Press, London, pp. 175-179.
*Hanssen-Bauer, F. 1996.. ‘Stability as a technical and an ethical requirement in conservation’ .ICOM committee for conservation, 11th triennial meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1-6 September Preprints, pp. 166-171.
Total: 58 pages