Introduction to Conservation and Restoration I I
Code
10106
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Conservação e Restauro
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Maria da Conceição Lopes Casanova
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
The purpose of this curricular unit is to provide students with the necessary theoretical tools that will allow a good integration in the exercise of the conservation discipline, promoting the development of critical judgment and an understanding of ethical principles, fundamental to the profession. In this perspective, understanding the historical background and the evolution of the discipline is also crucial.
At the end of the semester the student must:
i) Master the key concepts that frame the activity of Conservation
ii) Discern the evolution of the main theories and key theorists who contributed to the development of the discipline of Conservation, in a historical perspective
iii) Recognize the evolution of the profession, related with the development of the education of the conservator-restorer and the implementation of normative documents
iv) Develop and reveal critical spirit, in accordance with the ethical principles that govern the profession.
v) Develop the ability of communication and transmission of knowledge.
Subject matter
1. Concepts
1.1 Cultural Heritage and Scientific Heritage definitions. Conservation, remedial conservation, preservative conservation, and restoration concepts.
1.2 Case studies for concepts application : visits to a Monument and to Conservation Laboratories.
2. Evolution
2.1 The restoration history and the origins of the conservation as a science:
2.2 Major restoration theories: from John Ruskin to Cesari Brandi.
2.3 New paradigms: from Salvador Muñoz Viñas to Frank Hassard.
3. Education &Training
3.1 The role of international organizations in training and professional status of the conservator-restorer.
3.2 Principal normative documents for the profession.
4. Ethics of the Profession.
4.1 The influency of heritage meanning and value on the work developed by the conservator.
4.2 Conservation and restoration activities restrictions: reversibility and re-treatability concepts.
4.3 Relationship between the conservator/restorer and other professions: the interdisciplinary team.
4.4 Preservation and conservation practice versus accessibility of the heritage.
Bibliography
Price, N. S., Mansfield K. Talley and Alessandra M. Vaccaro, eds.Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage. Los Angeles: GCI, 1996.
Avrami, E., Randall M. and M. de la Torre, eds. Values and Heritage Conservation: Research Report. Los Angeles: GCI, 2000.
Hassard, F., “Towards a New Vision of Restoration in the Context of Global Change.”Journal of the Institute of Conservation 32, no. 2 (Sept. 2009): 149-150.
Muñoz-Viñas, S., Contemporary Theory of Conservation. Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.
Ruskin, J. “Lamp of Memory.” Chap. 6 in Seven Lamps of the Architecture. British Authors 3951. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907.