Monuments and the millennium : proceedings of a joint conference /
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| Imprint: | London : James & James (Science Publishers), c2001. |
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| Description: | xi, 244 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4691510 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface / John Fidler
- Introduction to the conference / Robert White
- Foreword / Jocelyn Stevens
- 1. Monuments and dilemmas: The Public Monuments and Sculpture Association National Recording Project / Johanna Darke
- 2. The National Inventory of War Memorials: Profile of a national recording project / Nick Hewitt
- 3. From here to eternity: Save outdoor sculpture for the next century / Susan K. Nichols
- 4. Leeds: patronising the arts and encouraging the sciences / Dorcas Taylor and Samantha Sportun
- 5. Do monuments still speak in Picasso's Vallauris from museum, courtyard, park and street? / Helen E. Beale
- 6. Heroes and kitsch in post-war monuments / Margaret Garlake
- 7. Destruction or preservation? The destruction and/or preservation of British imperial monuments in Dublin / Paula Murphy
- 8. Paradoxes of form and function in modern public monuments / Sergiusz Michalski
- 9. Contemporary monuments of the millennial kind / Vivien Lovell
- 10. Modern conservation of outdoor bronze sculpture / Andrew Naylor
- 11. The conservation of public sculpture in Aberdeen / Jennifer Melville
- 12. Laser removal of paint layers from corroded copper: Possible applications to bronze sculpture cleaning / M. I. Cooper
- 13. Protective coatings for outdoor bronze sculptures: Available materials and new developments / Hannelore Romich and Monika Pilz
- 14. Bronze conservation in the United States at the dawn of the new century / Dennis R. Montagna
- 15. Melbourne's monuments: Conservation issues and approaches / Robyn Riddett
- 16. The role of conservation in the design of conceptual monuments / Glenn Wharton
- 17. Cleopatra's needles, London and New York: Their histories, conditions and futures / Nicola Ashurst
- 18. The Scott Monument, East Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh: The cleaning debate / Ingval Maxwell
- 19. The application of cathodic protection to historic masonry structures: A case study / Bill Martin
- 20. The Albert Memorial: Saved but not restored / Alasdair Glass
- 21. Sculpture and the afterlife / Benedict Read
- 22. Conservation of monuments: Where are we going? / Roberto Nardi
- 23. Commissioning public sculpture in historic Lincoln: A proposal for the millennium / Vincent Shacklock
- 24. That sacred turf: War memorial gardens as theatres of war (and peace) / Paul Gough
- Closing remarks and questions/comments from the floor, 22nd May 1998 / John Fidler.
