The conservation movement : a history of architectural preservation : antiquity to modernity / Miles Glendinning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glendinning, Miles, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Conservation and restoration--History.

Architecture.

Architecture--Conservation and restoration.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 530 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : The conservation movement: stepchild of progress

Part I. Pre-1789: Foundations of the movement: care for old buildings in the pre-modern age : Harbingers of heritage: antiquity, Christendom, Renaissance

Antiquarian antecedents: 17th and 18th centuries

Part II. 1789-1914: Growth of the movement: first modern ideologies of conservation : International revolutions and national heritages, 1789-1850

The life-force of age : restoration and anti-scrape, 1850-1890

Militant monuments: nationalist conservation rivalries, 1890-1914

Part III. 1914-1945: Crisis of the movement: mass heritage, mass destruction : Monument wars: devastation and rebuilding, 1914-39

Total war and cultural bombing, 1939-45

Part IV. 1945-1989: Heyday of the movement: parallel narratives of post-war preservation : Parallel lives: new and old in the west, 1945-1968

From counter-culture to control: western triumphs of conservation, 1968-89

Heritage complexities in the socialist bloc, 1945-1989

Charters and conventions : the internationalisation of heritage, 1945-1989

Part V. Post-1989: The contemporary story : Heritage in the age of globalisation: post-1989

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Eden fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780415499996

0415499992

9780415543224

0415543223

OCLC:

792874714