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008			160927s2012 enkab b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781907317477
020			_a1907317473
040			_apucpr _beng _cpucpr _dpucpr _erda
041			_aspa
049	0		_aCARIBET
050		4	_aNA105 _bA774 2012
092			_a720.288 _bA774
100	1		_aArrhenius, Thordis.
245	1	4	_aThe fragile monument, on conservation and modernity / _cThordis Arrhenius. _htxt
264			_aLondon : _bBlack Dog Publishing ; _c2012.
300			_a160 p. : _bill. (some col.), map ; _c25 cm.
504			_aInclude biobliography
505	0		_aThe fragile monument: The historiography of conservation -- The space of conservation: The discourse of conservation ; Monuments historiques ; Destruction and conservation ; The invention of vandalism ; The space of conservation ; The museum ; Conservation or destruction of art -- The authentic: National history ; Restoration ; The need for history ; Authenticity ; Origin ; Sundrawings ; The Original ; The enchanted land ; Instrument of conservation ; Stone to stone ; The pleasure of the surface ; Blurred space -- The modern cult of monuments: The reception of the modern cult of monuments ; Vienna 1903 ; The monument ; Age ; Conservation ; History ; The present ; The cult ; The past as utopia -- Restoration in the Machine Age: Modernity and restoration -- Le "Plan Voisin" de Paris et Le Passé ; Et in Arcadia Ego ; Displacing the past -- Proximity and distance: Postscript.
520	0		_aThe Fragile Monument is a study of the discourse of conservation and its effect on the notion and role of the monument in contemporary western society. Through a revisionist account of the history of conservation, the book explores how the monument has been transformed from an object that originally communicated permanence to an object that is perceived as fragile and in need of protection. The argument put forward is that the expansion and popularisation of conservation is bound to a narrative of loss and danger that reveals a paradoxical relationship between destruction and preservation. In a series of case-studies the book shows how spatial devices have been used to negotiate this paradox and how this use of space has contributed to the defining of the monument as an object of conservation. Throughout its history, conservation has been surrounded by a polemic dominated by concepts of authenticity, origin and authorship. By studying that debate in relation to the case-studies, The Fragile Monument adumbrates the implications these concepts carry with them, both for the discipline of conservation and for the discourse of architecture as a whole. Identifying and examining particular 'sites of conflicts' where critical uncertainty, ambivalence, and heated debates have surrounded the 'object' of restoration, The Fragile Monument contributes significantly to expanding and shifting architectural discourse into a direction of crucial relevance today.
590			_aWorldwide, Oct/17/2013, 2014-053.
650		0	_aArchitecture _xConservation and restoration.
942			_2lcc _c6 _hNA105 _kGeneral _mA774 2012