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MAIN TEXTS
Jokilehto, Jukka, A History of Architectural Conservation, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford (2002) [First published 1999].
Muñoz Viñas, Salvador, Contemporary Theory of Conservation, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford (2005).
Stanley Price, Nicholas, Talley Jr., M. Kirby, Melucco Vaccaro, Alessandra, eds., Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Readings in Conservation), Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (1996).
Readings are listed according to subject and relevance to given lectures; some lectures require more reading than others.
LECTURE 1 The history of conservation/restoration: an overview of ideas and concepts
Antiquity to the early twentieth century
Muñoz Viñas, Salvador, Contemporary Theory of Conservation, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford (2005) ‘Chapter 1: What is conservation?’ pp. 7–25 ‘Chapter 7: The reasons for conservation’ pp. 171–181.
Jokilehto, Jukka, A History of Architectural Conservation, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford (2002) pp. 1–6, 13–16, 21–25, 29–48, 56–65 [First published 1999].
Schießl, U., ’The conservator-restorer. A short history of his profession and the development of professional education’, in CON.B.E.FOR., Ricerca Comparata: Conservatori-Restauratori di Beni Culturali in Europa: Centri ed Istituti di Formazione, ed. C. Gimondi, Associazione Giovanni Secco Suardo, Lurano (2000) pp. 37–61 (biblio 98–105).
Émile-Mâle, Gilberte, ‘The first transfer at the Louvre in 1750: Andrea del Sarto’s La Charité (1982)’, in Issues in the Conservation of Paintings, eds. D. Bomford and M. Leonard, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (2004) 275–289.
Brommelle, Norman, ’Material for a History of Conservation’, Studies in Conservation 2/4 (1956) pp. 176–188. (JSTOR)
Keck, Sheldon, ‘Further materials for a history of conservation’, in Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, eds. N. Stanley Price et al., Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (1996) pp. 281–287.
Optional:
Darrow, Elisabeth, ‘Necessity Introduced these Arts: Pietro Edwards and the Restoration of the Public Pictures of Venice 1778–1819’, in Past Practice, Future Prospects; The British Museum Occasional Paper Number 145, eds. A. Oddy and S. Smith, The British Museum Press, London (2001) pp. 61–65.
LECTURE 2 Formative debates in the nineteenth century: conservation versus restoration and other debates in France and England
Jokilehto, Jukka, A History of Architectural Conservation, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford (2002) pp. 101, 109–110, 127–132, 137–141, 149–157, 174–176, 181–186, 252–255.
Melucco Vaccaro, Alessandra, ‘Restoration and Anti-Restoration’, in Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, eds. N. Stanley Price et al., Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (1996) pp. 308–313.
Morris, William, ‘Manifesto of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings’, in Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, eds. N. Stanley Price et al., Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (1996) pp. 319–321. [Originally published in ‘The Principles of the Society [for the Protection of Ancient Buildings] As Set Forth upon Its Foundation’, Builder 35 (25 August 1877)].
Ruskin, John, ‘The Lamp of Memory, II’, in Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, eds. N. Stanley Price et al., Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (1996) pp. 322–323. [Originally published in: ‘The Lamp of Memory’, chap. 6 in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Smith, Elder, London (1849) nos. 18–20].
Miele, Christopher, ‘“A Small Knot of Cultured People”: William Morris and ideologies of protection’, Art Journal 54/2 (1995) pp. 73–79. (JSTOR)
LECTURE 3 Scientific research and museum objects
What can be gained?
Oddy, Andrew, ‘Scientific examination of artefacts’, in Manual of Curatorship: A Guide to Museum Practice, 2nd ed., ed. J.M.A. Thompson, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford (1994) pp. 480–486.
Urbani, Giovanni, ‘The science and art of conservation of cultural property’, in Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, eds. N. Stanley Price et al., Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (1996) pp. 445–450.
Science, archaeology and the study of paint
Nadolny, Jilleen, ‘The first century of published scientific analyses of the materials of historical painting and polychromy, circa 1780–1880’, Reviews in Conservation 4 (2003) pp. 39–51.
Bradley, Susan, ‘The impact of conservation science at the British Museum’, in The Interface between Science and Conservation, British Museum Occasional Paper No. 116, ed. S. Bradley, The British Museum, London (1997) pp. 1–7.
Gilberg, M., and Vivian, D., ’The Rise of Conservation Science in Archaeology (1830–1930)’, in Past Practice – Future Prospects, The British Museum Occasional Paper No. 145, eds. A. Oddy and S. Smith, The British Museum Press, London (2001) pp. 87–93.
Plenderleith, H.J., ‘Notes on technique in the examination of panel paintings’, Technical Studies in the Field of the Fine Arts 1(1) 1932, 3-7.
Effmann, Elise, ‘Theories about the Eyckian painting medium from the late-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries’, Reviews in Conservation 7 (2006) 17–26.
Ainsworth, M.W., From connoisseurship to technical history: the evolution of the interdisciplinary study of art, Getty Conservation Institute Newsletter, 20(1), Spring 2005.(accessed October 2010).
Cleaning controversies
Anderson, Jaynie, ‘The first cleaning controversy at the National Gallery 1846–1853’, in Appearance, Opinion, Change: Evaluation the Look of Paintings, The United Kingdom Institute for Conservation, London (1990) pp. 3–7.
Keck, Sheldon, ‘Some picture cleaning controversies: past and present’, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 23/2 (1984) pp. 73–87. (JSTOR)
Schmitt, Sibylle, ‘Examination of paintings treated by Pettenkoffer’s process’, in Cleaning, Retouching and Coatings. Preprints of the Contributions to the Brussels Congress, 3–7 September 1990, eds. J.S. Mills and P. Smith, IIC, London (1990) pp. 81–84.
Rød, Johannes, ‘The cleaning controversy and the keeping of secrets at the National Gallery in Oslo 1917–1921’, in ICOM-CC, 11th triennial meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1–6 September 1996: Preprints, ed. J. Bridgland, James & James (Science Publishers), London (1996) pp. 172–176.
LECTURE 4 From craftsman to conservator: catalysts and frameworks for multi-disciplinary training
Catalysts: Europe at war
Stout, George, ‘Letters’ and ‘Section V: The aftermath’, in Robert M. Edsel, Monuments Men, Preface Publishing, London (2009), pp. 95–96, 277–279, 371–387.
Keck, C., Salute to Paul Coremans, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 30(1), 1991, 1–2
Theoretical frameworks
Coremans, P., ‘The technique of the “Flemish Primitives’”, in Issues in the Conservation of Paintings, eds. D. Bomford and M. Leonard, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (2004) pp. 194–206.
Brandi, Cesare, ‘Theory of Restoration, I’, in Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, eds. N. Stanley Price et al., Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (1996) pp. 230–235 (first published in Italian in 1963).
Riefsnyder, Joan M., ‘Cesare Brandi and Italian Conservation Theory: In and Out of Context’, AIC Paintings Speciality Group Postprints Vol. 16, ed. H.M. Parkin, AIC, Washington, D.C. (2003) pp. 23–32.
Philippot, Paul, ‘Historic preservation: Philosophy, Criteria, Guidelines, I.’, in Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, eds. N. Stanley Price et al., Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (1996) pp. 268–274.
Training and education
Keck, Caroline and Keck, Sheldon, ‘The creator of a new approach to training art conservators/Homage à Paul Coremans’, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique Bulletin 8, 1965, 73-76.
Stout, George L., ‘Thirty years of conservation in the arts: a summary of remarks to the I.I.C. American Group in New York, June 1963’, Studies in Conservation 9 (1964) pp. 126-128.
Larsen, René, ‘The Science of Conservation-Restoration’, in 25 Years School of Conservation: the Jubilee Symposium Preprints 18-20 May 1998, Konservatorskolen Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen (1998) pp. 77–85.
ECCO Professional Guidelines I/II/III, ECCO, Brussels (2002). See http://www.ecco-eu.org/about-e.c.c.o./professional-guidelines.html or Google ECCO Professional Guidelines for the link to the pdf.
LECTURE 5 Conservation training in the 20th and 21st centuries
Training and education
Keck, Caroline and Keck, Sheldon, ‘The creator of a new approach to training art conservators/Homage à Paul Coremans’, Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique Bulletin 8, 1965, 73-76.
Stout, George L., ‘Thirty years of conservation in the arts: a summary of remarks to the I.I.C. American Group in New York, June 1963’, Studies in Conservation 9 (1964) pp. 126-128.
The Document of Pavia, Drafted at the European Summit: Preservation of Cultural Heritage: Towards a European Profile of the Conservator-Restorer, Pavia, October (1997), in 25 Years School of Conservation: the Jubilee Symposium Preprints 18-20 May 1998, Konservatorskolen Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen (1998) pp. 199–200.
The ENCoRE Document of Constitution, Drafted in Dresden, 9th November (1997), in 25 Years School of Conservation: the Jubilee Symposium Preprints 18-20 May 1998, Konservatorskolen Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen (1998) pp. 201–203.
ECCO Professional Guidelines I/II/III, ECCO, Brussels (2002).
Larsen, René, ‘The Science of Conservation-Restoration’, in 25 Years School of Conservation: the Jubilee Symposium Preprints 18-20 May 1998, Konservatorskolen Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, Copenhagen (1998) pp. 77–85.
LECTURE 6 Conservation standards: conventions, charters and codes of ethics
Overview
Sease, C, ‘Codes of ethics for conservation’, International Journal of Cultural Property 7(1) (1998) pp. 98–115.
Muñoz Viñas, Salvador, ‘Contemporary theory of conservation’, Reviews in Conservation 3 (2002) pp. 25–34.
Clavir, Miriam, ‘The social and historic construction of professional values in conservation’, Studies in Conservation 43 (1998) pp. 1–8.
Hanssen-Bauer, Francoise, ’Konvensjoner om faste kulturminner: Norges forpliktelser og utfordringer til fagmiljøet’, Kirkearkæologi i Norden 8 (2006) pp. 115–122.
Charters and guidelines
‘The Hague Convention’, Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, 1954, see http://www.worldinbalance.net/intagreements/1954-conventionculturalproperty.php
‘The Murray Pease Report’, Studies in Conservation 9(3) (1964), pp. 116–121.
‘The Venice Charter’, International Charter for the conservation and restoration of monuments and sites (ICOMOS), 2nd International Congress of Architects and Technicians of Historic Monuments, Venice, (25–31 May 1964, adopted 1965). See http://www.international.icomos.org/charters/venice_e.pdf
‘The Nara Document on Authenticity’ (ICOMOS), Agency for Cultural Affairs (Government of Japan), UNESCO, ICCROM, ICOMOS, Nara (1994). See http://www.international.icomos.org/charters/nara_e.htm
‘The Conservator-Restorer: a Definition of the Profession’, International Council of Museums–Committee for Conservation, http://www.icom-cc.org/47/about-icom-cc/definition-of-profession/ (accessed October 2010).
ECCO Professional Guidelines I/II/III, ECCO, Brussels (2002).
Ethics in practice
Oddy, A., and Holmes, R., ‘The Hockwold Treasure’, in The Art of the Conservator, ed. A. Oddy, British Museum Press, London (1992) pp. 137–150.
Easterbrook, M.J., ‘”Going all the Way”: Ethics in Private Practice’, in Proceedings of the 14th Annual IIC-CG Conference, May 27-30, 1988, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ed. J. Wellheiser, IIC-CG, Ottawa (1989) pp. 18–21.
LECTURE 7 Ethics and problems in contemporary conservation practice
Pye, E., ‘Reaching a decision’ in Caring for the Past: Issues in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, James and James, London (2001) pp. 116–120.
Muñoz Viñas, Salvador, Contemporary Theory of Conservation, Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford/Burlington (2005) ‘Chapter 5: A brief excursion into the real world’, pp. 115–146.
Clavir, Miriam, ‘The social and historic construction of professional values in conservation’, Studies in Conservation 43 (1998) pp. 1–8.
Restortation : an acceptable concept?
Oddy, Andrew, ’Restoration – is it acceptable?’, in British Museum Occasional Paper 99. Restoration – is it acceptable?, ed. A. Oddy, The British Museum, London (1994) pp. 3–8.
Richmond, Alison, ‘Review: restoration – is it acceptable?’, V&A Conservation Journal No. 15 (1995) pp. 10–11.
Reversibility
Oddy, Andrew, ‘Does reversibility exist in conservation?’, in Reversibility – does it exist?, British Museum Occasional Paper number 135, ed. A. Oddy, British Museum Press, London (1999) pp. 1–5.
Original intent
van de Wetering, Ernst, ‘The autonomy of restoration: ethical considerations in relation to artistic concepts’, in Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, eds. N. Stanley Price et al., Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles (1996) pp. 193–199.
Collections
Ashley-Smith, Jonathan, ‘A consistent approach to a varied collection’, in British Museum Occasional Paper 99. Restoration – Is It Acceptable?, ed. A. Oddy, The British Museum, London (1994) pp. 89–91.
Child, Robert, ‘Putting things in context. The ethics of working collections’, in British Museum Occasional Paper 99. Restoration – Is It Acceptable?, ed. A. Oddy, The British Museum, London (1994) pp. 139–143.
LECTURE 8 ArtWatch and critics of conservation
Case studies
The Shroud of Turin: Meacham, William, ‘The “restoration” of the Turin Shroud: a conservation and scientific disaster’, E-conservation, the online magazine 13 (February 2010), 28–42. Available at http://www.e-conservationline.com/content/view/862/
Looted art: Cembalest, Robin, ‘Claims conflict’, Artnews (October 2010), http://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=OGQ6RR900511 (accessed October 2010).
Cleaning Michelangelo’s David:‘Distilled water to clean David’, BBC News, 24 July 2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3092143.stm (accessed October 2010).
Sterling, Kristin, ‘ArtWatch Founder James Beck Discusses Restoration of ‘David’; Participates in Film that Screens February’, Columbia News, 30 January (2004), http://www.artwatchinternational.org/db_images/pdfs/ColumbiaRecordJan2004.mht (accessed October 2010).
LECTURE 9 Ethical considerations in archaeological conservation
Elia, Ricardo J., ‘Conservators and unprovenanced objects: preserving the cultural heritage or servicing the antiquities trade?’, in Antiquities Trade or Betrayed. Legal, Ethical & Conservation Issues, ed. K.W. Tubb, Archetype, London (1995) pp. 244–255.
Jaeschke, Helena F., ‘The conservation treatment of looted antiquities and the responsibilities of conservators’, in Archaeological Conservation and its Consequences. Preprints of the Contributions to the Copenhagen Conference, 26-30 August, 1996, eds. A. Roy and P. Smith, Copenhagen (1996) pp. 82–85.
Sease, Catherine, ‘Conservation and the Antiquities Trade’, JAIC 36 (1997) pp. 49–58. (JSTOR)
Sease, Catherine, and Thimme, Danaë, ‘The Kanakariá Mosaics: the conservator’s view’, in Antiquities Trade or Betrayed. Legal, Ethical & Conservation Issues, ed. K.W. Tubb, Archetype, London (1995) pp. 122–130.
Walker Tubb, Kathryn, ‘The Antiquities Trade: an archaeological conservator’s perspective’, in Antiquities Trade or Betrayed. Legal, Ethical & Conservation Issues, ed. K.W. Tubb, Archetype, London (1995) pp. 256–263.
Walker Tubb, Kathryn, and Sease, Catherine, ‘Sacrificing the wood for the trees – should conservation have a role in the antiquities trade?’, Archaeological Conservation and its Consequences. Preprints of the Contributions to the Copenhagen Conference, 26-30 August, 1996, Copenhagen (1996) pp. 193–197.
LECTURE 10 Dilemmas and decision-making
Dead or Alive? Preserving heavily damaged or heavily restored objects
de Jonge, Piet, ‘The Unexpected Life of a Total Loss’, in Modern Art: Who Cares? An interdisciplinary research project and an international symposium on the conservation of modern and contemporary art, eds. I. Hummelen and D. Sillé, The Foundation for the Conservation of Modern Art and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, Amsterdam (1999) pp. 137–141.
Bracker, Alison and Barker, Rachel, ‘Relic or release: defining and documenting the physical and aesthetic death of contemporary works of art’, in ICOM-CC Preprints, 14th Triennial Meeting, The Hague, 12-16 September 2005, ed. I. Verger, Vol. 2, James & James, London (2005) pp. 1009–1015.
Brajer, Isabelle, ‘Dilemmas in the restoration of wall paintings: conflicts between ethics, aesthetics, functions and values illustrated by examples from Denmark’, Die Kunst der Restaurierung. Entwicklungen und Tendenzen der Restaurierungsästhetick in Europa, ed. U. Schädler-Saub, Bayerisches National Museum & ICOMOS, Munich (2003) pp. 123–140.
Hummelen, Ijsbrand, ‘The authenticity of colour, a problem of restoration in modern art’, NMV 93: retusjering, komplettering, rekonstruksjon (= Nordisk Ministrråds videreutdannelseskurs for konservatorer) Oslo (1993) pp. 1–4.
Dilemmas and decision-making
Sirois, P.J., Johnsom, J.S., Shugar, A., Poulin, J. and Madden, O., 2007: ‘Pesticide contamination: working together to find a common solution’, in Proceedings of Symposium: Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Approaches, eds. C. Dignard, K. Helwig, J. Mason, K. Nanowin and T. Stone, Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa, 2008, pp. 175–186.
Klokkernes, T., and Olli, A.M., ‘Understanding museum artifacts: the role of tradition bearers and material analysis in investigating skin processing technology’, in Proceedings of Symposium: Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Approaches, eds. C. Dignard, K. Helwig, J. Mason, K. Nanowin and and T. Stone, Canadian Conservation Institute, Ottawa, 2008, pp. 109–114.
Muir, K., ‘Approaches to the reintegration of paint loss: theory and practice in the conservation of easel paintings, Reviews in Conservation 2009, pp. 19‒28. ‘To hunt or not to hunt? Minneapolis Institute of Arts lets public vote on masking of 19th century addition to Hobbema painting’ Tuesday, 17 May 2011, http://www.codart.nl/news/651/