Pensumliste KONS1000 - Introduction to conservation and collection care- høst 2016
Students are encouraged to complete reading in advance of lectures. Complete reading list for each lecture can be found in the Fronter-rom for this course.
Articles that have a web-link are marked with (€). Note: Most journals can only be accessed via the University of Oslo’s network.
Articles not available via a web-link are collected in a compendium that can be obtained from Akademika kopi-utsalg. These articles are marked with *
Book for purchase:
Caple, C. 2000. Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge.
NB. There are a few copies available in the library.
Lecture 1: What is cultural heritage, why should it be preserved and who should preserve it?
(€) Ahmad, Y. (2006) ‘The scope and definitions of heritage. From tangible to Intangible’. International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, May 2006, pp. 292–300. [Online] Accessible from www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13527250600604639 (visited 19.04.2016).
(€) (2004) ‘Reevaluating the ICOM Defenition of the museum’, ‘Collection=Museum’ and ‘The non-profit status of the museum’, ICOM News, No.2, [Online] Accessible from http://archives.icom.museum/definition_museum.html (visited 19.04.2016).
(€) UNESCO (2012) ‘World heritage and World Heritage Information Kit’, [Online] Accessible from http://whc.unesco.org/en/about/. (visited 17,04.2012)
(€) Unesco (2012) 'The World Heritage Convention'. [Online] Accessible from http://whc.unesco.org/en/convention/ (visited 17.04.2012).
(€) Bruno, S. Steiner, F. and Steiner, L. (2011) World Heritage List: does it make sense? International Journal of Cultural Policy, 17:5, 555-573. [Online] Accessible from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2010.541906 (visited 19.04.2016).
(€) Lewis, G.D. (2012) ‘The history of museums’. Encyclopaedia Britannica, [Online]. Accessible from http://www.muuseum.ee/uploads/files/g._lewis_the_history_of_museums.pdf (visited 16.04.2012).
Lecture 2: The nature and history of conservation.
*Viñas, S. M. (2005) ‘Chapter 1: What is Conservation’, in Contemporary Theory of Conservation, Amsterdam:Elsevier, pp. 1-25.
(€) Ward, P. (1986) The nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time, Chapter 1-3. Getty Conservation Institute, Marina del Rey. [Online]. Accessible from http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/nature_of_conservation.html (visited 17.04.2012).
(€) Gaël de Guichen (2014) Conservation today and professional excellence: some questions. In Šola, T. S. and Cipek, L. (eds.) 2014. The Best in Heritage, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 25-27 September 2014, 13th edition, in partnership with Europa Nostra, under special patronage of ICOM. Zagreb: European Heritage Association, The Best in Heritage. [Online] Accessible from: http://www.cca-roma.org/en/blog/2014/12/conservation-today-and-professional-excellence-some-questions (visited 19.04.2016)
(€) Pye, E. and Sully, D. (2007). ‘Evolving challenges, developing skills’. The Conservator, 30:1, [Online] Accessible from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01410096.2007.9995221 (visited 20.04.2016).
(€) ICOM Committee for Conservation (1984) ‘The Conservator-Restorer. A definition of the Profession’. [Online] Accessible from http://www.icom-cc.org/47/history-of-icom-cc/definition-of-profession-1984/
(visited 19.04.2016).
(€) ICOM-CC (?) ‘What is conservation? [Online] Accessible from http://www.icom-cc.org/330/about-icom-cc/what-is-conservation/conservation:-who,-what-amp;-why/#.VD932ouUeYk (visited 19.04.2016).
(€) ENCoRE (2001) Clarification of Conservation/Education at University Level or Recognised Equivalent, 3rd General Assembly, 19-22 juni 2001 Munich, Germany, [Online] Accessible from http://www.encore-edu.org/encore/encoredocs/cp.pdf, (visited 29.10.2009), ca. 4 pages.
*Keck, S. (1996) ‘Further Materials for a History of Conservation’, i (eds)N.S. Price,M.K.Talley Jr and A.M. Vaccaro, Readings in Conservation: Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, pp. 281-287.
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.
(€) Gurian, E.H. (1999) ‘What is the object of this exercise? A meandering exploration of the many meanings of objects in museums’. Humanities Research, Vol.8, No.1, pp. 25-36. [Online] Accessible from: press.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/4_gurian.pdf (visited 20.04.2016).
(€) Szmelter, I. (2013) ‘New values of cultural heritage and the need for a new paradigm regarding tits care’. CeROArt, [Online] Accessible from : https://ceroart.revues.org/3647 (visited 20.04.2016).
(€) Carey, C. (2008) ‘Modelling collecting behaviors: The role of set completion. Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol 29, Issue 3, pp. 336-347. [Online] Accessible from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167487007000682 (visited 20.04.2016).
*Pearce, S. (1995) ‘Collecting as medium and message’, in (ed) Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Museum, Media and Message, London, Routledge, pp15-23.
(€) The NARA document on authenticity. (1994) [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.icomos.org/charters/nara-e.pdf
Lecture 4: Conservation ethics and theory
(€) (2002) E.C.C.O. professional guidelines and code of ethics 1-4. [Online] Accessible from: http://www.ecco-eu.org/about-e.c.c.o./professional-guidelines.html (visited 20.04.2016).
(€) (2006) ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums. [Online] Accessible from: http://archives.icom.museum/ethics.html (visited 20.04.2016).
*Schiessl, U. (1995) ‘The Development of the Profession and its ethical rules’, in (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. [Online]. Accessible from: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=279299&jid=JCP&volumeId=7&issueId=01&aid=279298 (visited 09.04.2013).
*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.
(€) Allington-Jones, L. (2013). ‘The Phoenix: The role of conservation ethics in the development of St Pancras Railway Station (London, UK). Journal of Conservation and Museums Studies, 11(1), p.Art.1. [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.jcms-journal.com/articles/10.5334/jcms.1021205/ (visited 20.04.2016).
(€) Trusheim, L. (2011) ‘Balancing ethics and restoration in the conservation treatment of an 18th century seving box with tortoiseshell veneer’ Objects Speciality Group Postprints, Volume eighteen, pp. 127-147. Accessible from: http://resources.conservation-us.org/osg-postprints/postprints/v18/trusheim/ (visited 09.04.2016).
Charters:
(€) The Venice Charter, International charter for the conservation and restoration of monuments and sites, 1964, [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.international.icomos.org/charters/venice_e.pdf, (visited 09.04.2013).
(€) The Burra Charter (The Australian ICOMOS Charter for the conservation of Places of Cultural Significance 1979. [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.nationaltrust.net.au/sites/default/files/20110208%20The%20Burra%20Charter.pdf, (visited 09.04.2013).
(€) The declaration of Dresden, Reconstruction of Monuments Destroyed by War , [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.icomos.org/en/charters-and-texts?id=184:the-declaration-of-dresden, (visited 09.04.2013).
The Nara document of authenticity, 1994 , [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.icomos.org/charters/nara-e.pdf, (visited 09.04.2013).
(€) The declaration of San Antonio, 1996, [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.icomos.org/index.php/en/charters-and-texts?id=188:the-declaration-of-san-antonio&catid=179:charters-and-standards, (visited 09.04.2013).
Lecture 5: Investigating and recording objects
(€) Moore, M. (2001). ‘Conservation Documentation and the implications of digitisation’, Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, Issue 7. [Online]. Accessible from: http://cool.conservation-us.org/jcms/issue7/0111Moore.pdf (visited 19.04.2012).
(€) Ianna, C. (2001). ‘Non-destructive techniques used in material conservation’, in 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, Brisbane, Australia, 17-21 September, . [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.ndt.net/apcndt2001/papers/1159/1159.htm (visited 09.04.2013).
*Caple, C. (2006) Objects, Chapter 1, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-32.
(€) Conservation Perspectives. The GCI Newsletter. Collections Research, spring 2010. [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/newsletters/25_1/ (visited 17.04.2012)
Lecture 6: Processes of conservation
Case-studies Conservation Journal V&A, [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/c/conservation/, (visited 09.04.2013).
Lecture 7: Using collections. The balance between preservation and use.
*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.
(€) Lister, A. and Banks, J. (2008) ‘Unlimited access: safeguarding historic textiles on open display in public buildings in the UK’., Studies in Conservation, 53: sup1. pp. 151-161. [Online] Accessible from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/sic.2008.53.Supplement-1.156 (visited 20.04.2016).
(€) Pye, E. (2010) ‘Collections mobility perspectives on conservation: Emphasis on the original object’. S. Petterson, M. Hagedorn-Saupe, T. Jyrkkiö amd A. Weij (eds.) In Encouraging collections mobility – A way forward for museums in Europe. Lending for Europe 21st Century. pp.136- 149. [Online] Accessible from: http://www.lending-for-europe.eu/handbook/contents/ (visited 20.04.2016).
(€) 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/ICCROM_ICS03_ReligiousHeritage_en.pdf (visited 09.04.2013).
(€) Périer-D’Ieteren, C. (1998) ‘Tourism and conservation’. I Museum International 50(4), Oxford: Blackwelll publishers, pp. 5-14, [Online]. Accessible from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0033.00170/abstract, (visited 09.04.2013).
(€) Orbaşli, A(2000) Is Tourism Governing Conservation in Historic Towns? Journal of Architectural Conservation, 6:3, 7-19. [Online]. Accessible from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13556207.2000.10785276 (visited 20.04.2016).
Lecture 8. Introduction to preventive conservation and agents of deterioration
*Bradley, S. (1994) ’Chapter 6: Do objects have a finite lifetime?’, in (Ed) Simon J.Knell, Care of Collections, London: Routledge, pp. 51-59.
(€) Lewin, J. (1992) ‘Preventive Conservation’. GCI Newsletter 7 (1), pp.4-7, [Online]. Accessible from:
http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/newsletters/7_1/preventive.html (visited 08.04.2013)
*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.
(€) De Guichen, Gaël (1999) Preventive conservation: a mere fad or far-reaching change? Museum International (UNESCO, Paris), No. 201, Vol. 51, No. 1, 4-6. [Online] Accessible from: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0033.00183/epdf (visited 19.04.2016).
(€) Foekje Boersma (2016) ‘Preventive conservation-more than ‘dusting objects’? An overview of the development of the preventive conservation profession’. Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 39:1, 3-17.
[Online] Accessible from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19455224.2015.1136463 (visited 19.04.2016).
*S. Knell, (1994) ‘Introduction: The context of collections care’, in (ed.) Simon J. Knell, Care of collections, London and New York: Routledge, 1-10.
(€) 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, [Online]. Accessible from: http://cool.conservation-us.org/coolaic/jaic/articles/jaic44-03-006_indx.html (visited 08.04.2013)
*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.
Lecture 9: Stewardship, an integral approach to responsible use of collections
(€) Ashley-Smith, J. (2002) ‘Sustainability and precaution – Part 1. Conservation Journal, Spring, Issue 40. [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-40/sustainability-and-precaution-part-1/ (visited 20.04.2016)
(€) Ashley-Smith, J. (2003) ‘Sustainability and precaution – Part 2 How precautionary should we be?. Conservation Journal, Spring, Issue 44. [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-44/sustainability-and-precaution-part-2-how-precautionary-should-we-be/ (visited 20.04.2016).
(€) De Silva, M. and Hendersen, J. (2011) Sustainability in conservation practice. Journal of the Institute of Conservation, Volume 34, Issue 1, pp.5-15. [Online]. Accessible from: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19455224.2011.566013 (visited 20.04.2016).
(€) Podany, Jerry (2009) Sustainable Stewardship: Preventive conservation in a changing world Accessible from http://www.neh.gov/files/divisions/preservation/podany.pdf
(€) Claire Fry, Amber Xavier-Rowe, Frances Halahan and Jennifer Dinsmore, 2007. What’s causing the
damage! The use of a combined solution-based risk assessment and condition audit, in (eds.)
Tim Padfield and Karen Borchersen, Museum Microclimates, National Museum of Denmark ,Copenhagen, pp.107-114. [Online]. Accessible from: http://natmus.dk/fileadmin/user_upload/natmus/bevaringsafdelingen/billeder/far/Museum_Microclimate/Proceedings/musmic150.pdf (visited 08.04.2015).