Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method and Decision Making - Softcover

Caple, Chris

 
9780415188814: Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method and Decision Making

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Conservation Skills provides an overview of the issues facing conservators of historic and artistic works. It not only describes the nature of conservation but also provides an ethical framework to which the conservation of objects can be related. Drawing on case studies of well-known objects such as the body of Lindow Man and the Statue of Liberty it addresses the following issues:
* perception, judgement and learning
* reasons for preserving the past
* the nature and history of conservation
* conservation ethics
* recording, investigating, cleaning objects
* stabilisation and restoration
* preventive conservation
* decision making and responsibilities.

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Chris Caple is Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Conservation and Archaeological Science and the Director of the Postgraduate Conservation Course at the University of Durham.

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9780415188807: Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method and Decision Making

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ISBN 10:  0415188806 ISBN 13:  9780415188807
Verlag: Routledge, 2000
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