Research Catalog

Title

Sculpture conservation : preservation or interference? / edited by Phillip Lindley.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England : Scolar Press ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Ashgate Pub. Co., c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lindley, Phillip.

Description

xxxii, 208 p., [29] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

"This collection of 20 essays by contributors to the international conference in Liverpool shows that there are few unequivocal answers to the cultural, ethical and legal problems posed by sculpture conservation. Powerfully contrasting attitudes are reflected in these essays, some of which also scrutinise the institutional frameworks within which modern conservation takes place."--BOOK JACKET. "Taken together, the essays make clear the pressing need to establish procedures through which conservators, scientists, curators and administrators can all co-operate in the interests of preserving our sculptural heritage for the future."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

Sculpture > Conservation and restoration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cathedrals in England : the statutory context for conservation / R. Gem -- Sculpture conservation in England and Wales : an architect's view / M.B. Caroe -- Bureaucratic tendency : polemic reflections on the control of conservation work, with reference to the Romanesque frieze at Lincoln Cathedral / J. Baily -- Historic monuments of France and their fate : who makes the decisions? / I. Pallot-Frossard -- Conservation : a direct route to the protection and study of monuments / R. Nardi -- Sculpture in active service / J. Farnsworth -- Preservation or desecration? : the legal position of the restorer / R. Fry -- Standard for care : the role of English heritage in the provision of conservation expertise / K. Foley -- Sculpture conservation : treatment or reinterpretation? / J. Larson -- Assessment of the 'lime method' of conservation of exterior limestone sculpture / N. Durnan -- Treatment and protection of public monumental stone sculpture in Britain : the role of the sculpture conservator / J. Porter -- Perspectives on the repatination of outdoor bronze sculptures / J. Heuman -- Monument to George Home, 1st earl of Dunbar, by Maximiliam Colt, c.1611, in Dunbar Parish Church / K. Taylor -- Vasari's theory on the origins of oil painting and its influence on cleaning methods : the ruined polychromy of the early thirteenth century crucifix from Haug, Norway / K. Kollandsrud -- Problems in the cleaning of polychromed wood sculpture / B. Schleicher -- Pietro Torrigiano's tomb of Dr Yonge in the public record office : conservation discoveries and decisions / C. Galvin and P. Lindsey -- View of sculpture conservation in Finland / L. Wikström -- Variations in the surface of stone owing to the presence of organic and inorganic substances / A. Parronchi -- Display and conservation of sculpture at Petworth / T. Proudfoot and C. Rowell -- Some observations and reflections on the restoration of antique sculpture in the eighteenth century / G. Vaughan.

ISBN

1859282547 (cloth)

LCCN

^^^96004097^

OCLC

• 34472921
• SCSB-10199934

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library