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Curated decay : heritage beyond saving / Caitlin DeSilvey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- DeSilvey, Caitlin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic sites--Conservation and restoration.
- Historic sites.
- Cultural property--Protection.
- Cultural property.
- Historic preservation--Philosophy.
- Historic preservation.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 234 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with-rather than defend against-natural processes. An interdisciplinary reframing of the concept of the ruin that combines historical and philosophical depth with attentive storytelling, Curated Decay represents the first attempt to apply new theories of materiality and ecology to the concerns of critical heritage studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Postpreservation : looking past loss
- Memory's ecologies : curating mutability in Montana
- When story meets the storm : unsafe harbor
- Orderly decay : philosophies of non-intervention
- A positive passivity : plants as entropic agents
- Boundary work : nature-culture in practice
- Palliative curation : the death of a lighthouse
- Beyond saving : care without conservation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: DeSilvey, Caitlin. Curated decay.
- ISBN:
- 9781452953717
- 1452953716
- Publisher Number:
- 99986290645
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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