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Securing the past : conservation in art, architecture and literature

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Securing the past : conservation in art, architecture and literature / Paul Eggert.

Author

Eggert, Paul, 1951-

Publication

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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xi, 290 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-284) and index.

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buildings and the restoration of the churches -- The new Ruskinians and the new aesthetes -- Forgery and authenticity : historical documents, literary works, and paintings -- Conservators and agency : their role in the work -- Subtilising authorship : Rembrandt, scientific evidence, and modern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.

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