Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation : Discourses, Opinions, Experiences in Europe, South and East Asia / edited by Katharina Weiler, Niels Gutschow.
Weiler, Katharina, editor.; Gutschow, Niels, editor.
2017
HM623
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Title Authenticity in Architectural Heritage Conservation : Discourses, Opinions, Experiences in Europe, South and East Asia / edited by Katharina Weiler, Niels Gutschow.
ISBN 9783319305233
3319305239
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30523-3
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer, 2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 345 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-30523-3 doi
Call Number HM623
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.69
Summary The book contributes to a recontextualization of authenticity by investigating how this value is created, reenacted, and assigned. Over the course of the last century, authenticity figured as the major parameter for the evaluation of cultural heritage. It was adopted in local and international charters and guidelines on architectural conservation in Europe, South and East Asia. Throughout this period, the concept of authenticity was constantly redefined and transformed to suit new cultural contexts and local concerns. This volume presents colonial and postcolonial discourses, opinions, and experiences in the field of architectural heritage conservation and the use of site-specific practices based on representative case studies presented by art historians, architects, anthropologists, and conservationists from Germany, Nepal, India, China, and Japan. With more than 180 illustrations and a collection of terminologies in German, English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Nevari and Nepali, classical Chinese and standard Mandarin, and Japanese, these cross-cultural investigations document the processual re-configuration of the notion of authenticity. They also show that approaches to authenticity can be specified with key analytical categories from transcultural studies: appropriation, transformation, and, in some cases, refusal.
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Added Author Weiler, Katharina, editor.
Gutschow, Niels, editor.
Series Transcultural research-- Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context.
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Introduction
Architectural Heritage Conservation in South and East Asia and Europe. Contemporary Practices
The Impulse to Remember: Thoughts on the Conservation of World War II Ruins in Germany
Part I: Case Studies from South Asia
The Idea of Place in the Practice of Restoration and Replication in India
Humayun's Tomb: Conservation and Restoration
Sompura: Traditional Master Builders of Western India
Contested Evaluations: Authenticity and the "Living Traditions" of Master Builders and Stone Masons in India
Material Authenticity and Conservation Traditions in Nepal
Part II: Case Studies from East Asia
Authenticity and Heritage Conservation in China: Translation, Interpretation, Practices
Restoration and Conservation of the Yisu Society Theater in Xi'an
Aspects of Architectural Authenticity in Chinese Heritage Theme Parks
"Repair by Disassembly" (Jap. kaitai shūri) in Japan
Authenticity in Japan
Part III: Interviews
Changes in Basic Attitudes to Monument Preservation in Germany: A Conversation with Architectural Conservationist Gottfried Kiesow
Essential Architectural Values: A Conversation with the Architect Raj Rewal
The Conservation of Humayun's Tomb in Delhi: A Debate On-Site
Conclusion.

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