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Beschreibung

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.

Curated Decay chronicles DeSilvey’s travels to places where experiments in curated ruination and creative collapse are under way, or under consideration. It uses case studies from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to explore how objects and structures produce meaning not only in their preservation and persistence, but also in their decay and disintegration. Through accessible and engaging discussion of specific places and their stories, it traces how cultural memory is generated in encounters with ephemeral artifacts and architectures.

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.

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.

Curated Decay chronicles DeSilvey’s travels to places where experiments in curated ruination and creative collapse are under way, or under consideration. It uses case studies from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to explore how objects and structures produce meaning not only in their preservation and persistence, but also in their decay and disintegration. Through accessible and engaging discussion of specific places and their stories, it traces how cultural memory is generated in encounters with ephemeral artifacts and architectures.

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.

Über den Autor

Caitlin DeSilvey is associate professor of cultural geography at the University of Exeter. She is coauthor of Visible Mending and coeditor of Anticipatory History.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
1. Postpreservation: Looking Past Loss
2. Memory’s Ecologies: Curating Mutability in Montana
3. When Story Meets the Storm: Unsafe Harbor
4. Orderly Decay: Philosophies of Nonintervention
5. A Positive Passivity: Entropic Gardens
6. Boundary Work: On Expertise and Ambiguity
7. Palliative Curation: The Death of a Lighthouse
8. Beyond Saving: Care without Conservation
Acknowledgments
Notes
Permissions
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Importe, Kunst
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Allgemeine Kunst
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780816694389
ISBN-10: 0816694389
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Desilvey, Caitlin
Hersteller: University of Minnesota Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 203 x 126 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Caitlin Desilvey
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.02.2017
Gewicht: 0,264 kg
Artikel-ID: 107739407

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