The conservation movement : a history of architectural preservation : antiquity to modernity /
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?...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge,
2013
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (530 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780415543224 0415543223 9781283973212 1283973219 9780203080399 0203080394 9781136167027 1136167021 0415499992 9780415499996 9781136167010 1136167013 9781136166976 1136166971 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
