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The Conservation Movement: Antiquity to Modernity

Autor Miles Glendinning
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 ian 2013
In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable?
Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a ‘Conservation Movement’, infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. The close inter-relationship between conservation and modern civilisation was most dramatically heightened in periods of war or social upheaval, beginning with the French Revolution, and rising to a tragic climax in the 20th-century age of totalitarian extremism; more recently the troubled relationship of ‘heritage’ and global commercialism has become dominant.
Miles Glendinning’s new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, the entire history of this architectural Conservation Movement, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415543224
ISBN-10: 0415543223
Pagini: 544
Ilustrații: 220 black & white halftones, 30 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 188 x 246 x 28 mm
Greutate: 1.16 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Routledge

Cuprins

The Conservation Movement: Stepchild of Progress  Part1: Pre-1789 - Foundations of the Movement: Care for Old Buildings in the Pre-Modern Age  1. Harbingers of Heritage: Antiquity, Christendom, Renaissance  2. International Revolutions and National Heritages: 1789-1850  Part 2:1789-1914  - Growth of the Movement: First Modern Ideologies of Conservation  3. International Revolutions and National Heritages: 1789-1850  4. The Life-Force of Age: Restoration and Anti-Scrape, c.1850-1890  53 Militant Monuments: Nationalist Conservation Rivalries, 1890-1914  Part 3: 1914-1945 - Crisis of the Movement: Mass Heritage, Mass Destruction  6. Monument Wars: Devastation and Rebuilding: 1914-39  7. Total War and Cultural Bombing: 1939-45 Part 4: 1945-1989 - Heyday of the Movement: Parallel Narratives of Postwar Preservation  8. Parallel Lives: New and Old in the West, 1945-1968  9. From Counter-Culture to Control: Western Triumphs of Conservation, 1968-89  10. Heritage Complexities in the Socialist Bloc, 1945-1989  11. Charters and Conventions: The Internationalisation of Heritage, 1945-1989 Part 5: POST-1989 - The Contemporary Story  12. Heritage in the Age of Globalisation, post-1989

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Miles Glendinning’s new book significantly deepens our knowledge and appreciation of the conservation movement.  In a critical, learned, deeply thoughtful and fast-paced narrative, Glendinning vividly relates the process of making, discovering and transforming heritage to the mainsprings of geopolitics and intellectual history. Focusing on the 20th century, he wisely steers clear of normative judgments ߝ lending clarity to his interpretation of conservation debates and rendering this volume extremely useful to both historians and conservation/design professionals. ߝ Professor Randall Mason, Chair, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, The University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Miles Glendinning's new book significantly deepens our knowledge and appreciation of the conservation movement. In a critical, learned, deeply thoughtful and fast-paced narrative, Glendinning vividly relates the process of making, discovering and transforming heritage to the mainsprings of geopolitics and intellectual history. Focusing on the 20th century, he wisely steers clear of normative judgments - lending clarity to his interpretation of conservation debates and rendering this volume extremely useful to both historians and conservation/design professionals. - Professor Randall Mason, Chair, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, The University of Pennsylvania School of Design

Notă biografică

Miles Glendinning is Professor of Architectural Conservation at the University of Edinburgh and Director of the Scottish Centre for Conservation Studies. He has published extensively on modernist and contemporary architecture and housing: his books include the award-winning Tower Block (with Stefan Muthesius), Modern Architect, on the life and times of Sir Robert Matthew, and Architecture’s Evil Empire, a polemical evaluation of contemporary ‘iconic modernism’. His current research projects include an in-depth investigation of mass housing in Hong Kong and Singapore.