Conservation Skills: Judgement, Method and Decision Making - Hardcover

Caple, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415188806 ISBN 13: 9780415188807

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415188806
• ISBN 13: 9780415188807
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248