Conservation of the Walls of the 18th century Granary Belonging to the King Jan III Museum at Wilanów – E-BOOK
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Author: Wojciech Bagiński
The book is an in-extenso record of the doctoral dissertation defended in 2019 at the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The author, referring to the fact that monument conservation is a field that was born over two hundred years ago, seeks an answer to the question about the condition of the profession of monument conservator in the modern world which, due to the increasingly stronger connection between what is human and what is technical, electronic, digital and natural, before our eyes questions the essence of the subject-object dualism that defines modernity. For this purpose, the author confronts the conceptual model of the French sociologist and philosopher Bruno Latour, especially his theses from the widely commented book ‘We Have Never Been Modern’ (1991), with self-reflection on the conservation process. He argues that since there is a possibility that the people-artifacts dualism is problematic, the way of thinking about the care of monuments, as well as the relationship between conservators and the objects they work with, should be revised. We are dealing with an attempt at such a revision in the presented dissertation. The considerations are based on case studies, which are: the rapid formation during the French Revolution of the phenomenon known as French national heritage, conservation care of the Wilanów collection, and conservation intervention regarding the titular granary.
Format: ebook (MOBI, EPUB)
Publisher: Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów
Year of publication: 2021
ISBN 978-83-66104-80-8
The book is an in-extenso record of the doctoral dissertation defended in 2019 at the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. The author, referring to the fact that monument conservation is a field that was born over two hundred years ago, seeks an answer to the question about the condition of the profession of monument conservator in the modern world which, due to the increasingly stronger connection between what is human and what is technical, electronic, digital and natural, before our eyes questions the essence of the subject-object dualism that defines modernity. For this purpose, the author confronts the conceptual model of the French sociologist and philosopher Bruno Latour, especially his theses from the widely commented book ‘We Have Never Been Modern’ (1991), with self-reflection on the conservation process. He argues that since there is a possibility that the people-artifacts dualism is problematic, the way of thinking about the care of monuments, as well as the relationship between conservators and the objects they work with, should be revised. We are dealing with an attempt at such a revision in the presented dissertation. The considerations are based on case studies, which are: the rapid formation during the French Revolution of the phenomenon known as French national heritage, conservation care of the Wilanów collection, and conservation intervention regarding the titular granary.
Format: ebook (MOBI, EPUB)
Publisher: Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów
Year of publication: 2021
ISBN 978-83-66104-80-8
