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Fragile Monument: on Conservation and Modernity (Paperback)
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Fragile Monument: on Conservation and Modernity (Paperback)
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The Fragile Monument is a study of the discourse of conservation
and its effect on the notion and role of the monument in
contemporary western society. Through a revisionist account of the
history of conservation, the book explores how the monument has
been transformed from an object that originally communicated
permanence to an object that is perceived as fragile and in need of
protection. The argument put forward is that the expansion and
popularisation of conservation is bound to a narrative of loss and
danger that reveals a paradoxical relationship between destruction
and preservation. In a series of case-studies the book shows how
spatial devices have been used to negotiate this paradox and how
this use of space has contributed to the defining of the monument
as an object of conservation. Throughout its history, conservation
has been surrounded by a polemic dominated by concepts of
authenticity, origin and authorship. By studying that debate in
relation to the case-studies, The Fragile Monument adumbrates the
implications these concepts carry with them, both for the
discipline of conservation and for the discourse of architecture as
a whole. Identifying and examining particular 'sites of conflicts'
where critical uncertainty, ambivalence, and heated debates have
surrounded the 'object' of restoration, The Fragile Monument
contributes significantly to expanding and shifting architectural
discourse into a direction of crucial relevance today.
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