ISBN:
9780262345798
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (305 pages)
Series Statement:
MIT Press Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Cloonan, Michele The Monumental Challenge of Preservation : The Past in a Volatile World
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cloonan, Michèle Valerie, 1955 - The monumental challenge of preservation
DDC:
363.69
Keywords:
Historic preservation
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Cultural property-Protection
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Electronic books
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Kulturerbe
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Bestandserhaltung
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Konservierung
Abstract:
The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustration Credits -- Preface -- Background -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Context -- 1. Introduction: We Are What We Preserve-and Don't Preserve -- What Is a Monument? -- 2. A Tale of Monuments in Two Cities -- In the Beginning … -- "Lenin, Kaput!" -- Leninfall -- Troubles Behind, Troubles Ahead? -- II. Cultural Genocide -- 3. To Destroy Culture: Raphael Lemkin's Lessons about Genocide and How They Relate to the Preservation of Cultural Heritage -- 4. Documenting Cultural Heritage in Syria -- Other Initiatives -- III. Approaches to Preservation -- 5. Collecting as Preservation -- 6. Worth Dying For? Richard Nickel and Historic Preservation in Chicago -- Nickel's Contributions -- Coda -- IV. Information or Object? -- 7. What Are We Really Trying to Preserve: The Original or the Copy? -- 8. It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Some Thoughts on Digital Preservation -- Social Networking -- Gaming -- Digital Art -- UNESCO and Digital Heritage -- Financial Sustainability -- 3D Re-creations and Reconstructions as a Preservation Strategy -- Ethics and Values -- A New Definition? -- V. The Greening of Preservation -- 9. Sustainable Preservation -- VI. Enduring, Ephemeral Preservation -- 10. Preservation: Enduring or Ephemeral? -- 11. Epilogue: Berlin as a City of Reconciliation and Preservation -- The Reichstag -- Brandenburger Tor -- "Memorial Way" -- Potsdamer Platz -- Demolition versus Reconstruction -- Nefertiti and James Simon -- Notes -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Bibliography -- Index
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