Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths
The Royal Academy of Arts held a two-day symposium in September 2009, following the publication of the book 'Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths', edited by Dr Alison Bracker and Alison Richmond.
Day 1, Session 1: Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths
Chair: Laura Drysdale
Jonathan Ashley-Smith, Royal College of Art
The Adolescence of the Profession.
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Salvador Muñoz Viñas, Polytechnic University Valencia
You are not being objective. Conservation as an act of taste.
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Sarah Maisey, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane
When things go wrong: Sharing experiences for collective learning.
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Andy Calver, Museum of St Albans
Conservation fads, fashion and flummery: An incontrovertible truth?
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Chaired panel discussion with Laura Drysdale (Chair)
Jonathan Ashley-Smith, Salvador Muñoz Viñas, Sarah Maisey, and Andy Calver.
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Day 1, Session 2: Making Meaning: Theories and philosophies of conservation ethics
Chair: Jonathan Rée
Dinah Eastop, University of Southampton
A material culture analysis of conservation principles.
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Helen Glanville, University of Cambridge
The painting as material interface between artist and beholder: Restoration philosophy, perception and neuroscience.
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Sebastiano Barassi, Kettle's Yard
Dreaming of a universal approach: Brandi's Theory of Restoration and the conservation of contemporary art.
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Ari Tanhuanpää, Finnish National Gallery
Conservation as meaning-making in seventeenth-century Dutch art.
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Chaired Panel discussion with Jonathan Rée (Chair)
Dinah Eastop, Helen Glanville, Sebastiano Barassi, and Ari Tanhuanpää.
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Day 2, Session 1: Social Memory: Tangible and Intangible Heritage
Chair: Simon Cane
Sanchita Balachandran, Private Conservator
Among the Dead and their Possessions: A conservator’s role in the death, life, and afterlife of human remains and their associated objects.
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Sudha Srestha, Institute of Engineering Kathmandu
Cultural heritage Institutions and the safeguarding of tangible and intangible heritage in a changing world – Case study in Kathmandu, Nepal.
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Kirsten McKee, University of Edinburgh
From conservation to controversy? The intangible legacy of Calton Hill
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Kim Muir, The Art Institute of Chicago
Remembering the past: The role of social memory in the restoration of damaged paintings
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Chaired Panel discussion with Simon Cane (Chair)
Sanchita Balachandran, Sudha Srestha, Kirsten McKee, and Kim Muir.
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Day 2, Session 2: Contested Values: Historic Buildings, Monuments and World Heritage Sites
Chair: Renée Tobe
Jhilmil Kishore, Aukett Fitzroy Robinson Architects
Haveli – Indian courtyard House
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Hsien-yang Tseng, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Reconsidering conservation in response to the contested values of built heritage: Case studies in Taiwan in 2000s.
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Diane Watters, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland
Cardross Seminary: Modernity, decay & ruin.
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Ehab Kamel, Ain Shams University & University of Nottingham
Historic context and cultural content – A case study of Historic Cairo
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Chaired Panel Discussion with Renée Tobe (Chair)
Jhilmil Kishore, Hsien-yang Tseng, Diane Watters, and Ehab Kamel
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Day 2, Session 3: The Neues Museum Restoration by David Chipperfield Architects
Panel discussion with David Chipperfield CBE RA, David Chipperfield Architects; Julian Harrap, Julian Harrap Architects; and Kate Goodwin, RA Architecture Programme.
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