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  Prior Repairs – to Remove or to Preserve?

  Posted by freya on 29. decembra 2006 at 19:21

  Prior Repairs – to Remove or to Preserve?
  Questions to ask in the decision making process:

  • Is it disfiguring (does it excessively impair the visual appreciation of the object)?
  • Does it now, or, will it later endanger the object in any way (stability, compatibility)?
  • Will the removal be stressful/dangerous for the object, now or
  later?
  • Is it culturally appropriate or spiritually significant?
  • Is it historically significant?
  • Is the artist’s/maker’s opinion regarding the restoration/repair
  available, or, perhaps, is the restoration/repair an invention of
  the artist?
  • Is the cost/effect ratio of undertaking the reversal worth it?

  – IF SO, CAN ANY OF THESE PROBLEMS BE ADRESSED IN
  ANOTHER FASHION APART FROM REMOVAL?

  I am interested to hear about your dillemas and experiences…

  freya odpovedal 17 years, 10 months ago 1 Člen · 3 odpovede/odpovedí

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  freya

  Member

  29. decembra 2006 at 22:24

  I guess I was really tired when I was formulating this quiz..

  It should be: What is your most common reason for removing prior repairs from objects..
  :smt015

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  Anonymous

  Guest

  30. decembra 2006 at 15:22

  What mean you with artist?

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  freya

  Member

  30. decembra 2006 at 16:01

  artist or maker…
  in a case of art conservation we would be speaking about artist to support the philosophy of art historians. Art history was important to the development of conservation as a field..
  I was thinking that conservators would prefer the other term I used: maker, therefor the slash. the term “maker” is also more objective i think.
  This might be an interesting discussion about what is considered to be ART in general.

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