Articles that have a web-link are marked with (€). Note: Most journals can only be accessed via the University of Oslo¡¯s network. Articles not available via a web-link are collected in a compendium that can be obtained from Akademika kopi-utsalg. These articles are marked with *
Students are encouraged to complete reading in advance of lectures. Complete reading list for each lecture can be found in the Fronter-rom for this course.
Book for purchase:
Caple, C. 2000. Conservation Skills. Judgement, Method and Decision making, London: Routledge.
NB. There are a few copies available in the library.
Lecture 1: What is cultural heritage, why should it be preserved and who should preserve it?
(€) Ahmad, Y. (2006) ¡®The scope and definitions of heritage. From tangible to Intangible¡¯. International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, May 2006, pp. 292¨C300
(€) (2004) ¡®Reevaluating the ICOM Defenition of the museum¡¯, ¡®Collection=Museum¡¯ and ¡®The non-profit status of the museum¡¯, ICOM News, No.2
(€) UNESCO (2012) ¡®World heritage and World Heritage Information Kit¡¯
(€) Unesco (2012) 'The World Heritage Convention'.
(€) Lewis, G.D. (2012) ¡®The history of museums¡¯. Encyclopaedia Britannica
(€) Bruno, S. Steiner, F. and Steiner, L. (2011) World Heritage List: does it make sense? International Journal of Cultural Policy, 17:5, 555-573.
Lecture 2: The nature and history of conservation.
Vi?as, S. M. 2005. ¡®Chapter 1: What is Conservation¡¯, in Contemporary Theory of Conservation, Amsterdam:Elsevier, pp. 1-25.
(€) Ward, P. 1986. The nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time, Chapter 1-3. Getty Conservation Institute, Marina del Rey.
(€) Ga?l de Guichen (2014) Conservation today and professional excellence: some questions. In ?ola, T. S. and Cipek, L. (eds.) 2014. The Best in Heritage, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 25-27 September 2014, 13th edition, in partnership with Europa Nostra, under special patronage of ICOM. Zagreb: European Heritage Association, The Best in Heritage.
(€) Pey, E. and Sully, D. (2007). ¡®Evolving challenges, developing skills¡¯. The Conservator, 30:1
(€) ICOM Committee for Conservation (1984) ¡®The Conservator-Restorer. A definition of the Profession¡¯.
(€) ICOM-CC ¡®What is conservation?
(€) ENCoRE 2001. Clarification of Conservation/Education at University Level or Recognised Equivalent, 3rd General Assembly, 19-22 juni 2001 Munich, Germany
*Keck, S. 1996. ¡®Further Materials for a History of Conservation¡¯, i (eds)N.S. Price,M.K.Talley Jr and A.M. Vaccaro, Readings in Conservation: Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, pp. 281-287.
Lecture 3: The meaning of objects
*Pye, E. 2001. ¡®Chapter 4: The meaning of objects¡¯, in Caring for the past. Issues in Conservation for Archaeology and Museums, London: James and James, pp. 57-76.
(€) Gurian, E.H. (1999) ¡®What is the object of this exercise? A meandering exploration of the many meanings of objects in museums¡¯. Humanities Research, Vol.8, No.1, pp. 25-36.
(€) Szmelter, I. (2013) ¡®New values of cultural heritage and the need for a new paradigm regarding its care¡¯. CeROArt,
*Keene, S. 2005. Chapter 3: ¡®Collections¡¯, in Fragments of the World. Uses of Museum Collections, Amsterdam, Elsevier, pp. 25-44.
(€) Carey, C. (2008) ¡®Modelling collecting behaviors: The role of set completion. Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol 29, Issue 3, pp. 336-347.
*Pearce, S. 1995. ¡®Collecting as medium and message¡¯, in (ed) Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Museum, Media and Message, London, Routledge, pp15-23.
(€) The NARA document on authenticity. 1994
Lecture 4: Conservation ethics and theory
(€)E.C.C.O. professional guidelines and code of ethics 1-4.
(€)ICOM Code of Ethics for Museums.
*Schiessl, U. 1995. ¡®The Development of the Profession and its ethical rules¡¯, in (ed) R?theli-Mariotti, et.al. The Restoration of Works of Art. Legal and Ethical Aspects, Geneva: Geneva Art Law Centre, pp. 203-229.
(€) Sease, C. 1998.'Codes of Ethics for Conservation' , International Journal of Cultural Property, vol. 7 number 1,1998, p. 98-115
*Hanssen-Bauer, F. 1996.. ¡®Stability as a technical and an ethical requirement in conservation¡¯ .ICOM committee for conservation, 11th triennial meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, 1-6 September Preprints, pp.
166-171.
(€) Allington-Jones, L. (2013). ¡®The Phoenix: The role of conservation ethics in the development of St Pancras Railway Station (London, UK). Journal of Conservation and Museums Studies, 11(1), p.Art.1.
(€) Trusheim, L. (2011) ¡®Balancing ethics and restoration in the conservation treatment of an 18th century seving box with tortoiseshell veneer¡¯ Objects Speciality Group Postprints, Volume eighteen, pp. 127-147.
Charters:
(€) The Venice Charter, International charter for the conservation and restoration of monuments and sites, 1964
(€) The declaration of Dresden, Reconstruction of Monuments Destroyed by War
(€)The Nara document of authenticity, 1994
(€) The declaration of San Antonio, 1996,
Lecture 5: Investigating and recording objects
(€) Moore, M. 2001. ¡®Conservation Documentation and the implications of digitisation¡¯, Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies, Issue 7.
(€) Ianna, C. 2001. ¡®Non-destructive techniques used in material conservation¡¯, in 10th Asia-Pacific Conference on Non-Destructive Testing, Brisbane, Australia, 17-21 September
*Caple, C. 2006. Objects, Chapter 1, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 1-32.
(€) Conservation Perspectives. The GCI Newsletter. Collections Research, spring 2010.
Lecture 6: Processes of conservation
Case-studies Conservation Journal V&A
Lecture 7: Using collections. The balance between preservation and use.
*Keene, S. 1994. Objects as systems: A new challenge for conservation, in (ed.) Andrew Oddy, Restoration: Is it Acceptable?, British Museum, Occasional Paper 90, pp. 19-25.
(€) Lister, A. and Banks, J. (2008). ¡®Unlimited access: safeguarding historic textiles on open display in public buildings in the UK¡¯., Studies in Conservation, 53: sup1. pp. 151-161
(€) Pye, E. (2010). ¡®Collections mobility perspectives on conservation: Emphasis on the original object¡¯. S. Petterson, M. Hagedorn-Saupe, T. Jyrkki? amd A. Weij (eds.) In Encouraging collections mobility ¨C A way forward for museums in Europe. Lending for Europe 21st Century. pp.136- 149.
(€) P¨¦rier-D¡¯Ieteren, C. 1998. ¡®Tourism and conservation¡¯. I Museum International 50(4), Oxford: Blackwelll publishers, pp. 5-14
(€) Orba?li, A(2000) Is Tourism Governing Conservation in Historic Towns? Journal of Architectural Conservation, 6:3, 7-19
Lecture 8. Introduction to preventive conservation and agents of deterioration
*Bradley, S. 1994 ¡¯Chapter 6: Do objects have a finite lifetime?¡¯, in (Ed) Simon J.Knell, Care of Collections, London: Routledge, pp. 51-59.
(€) Lewin, J. 1992. ¡®Preventive Conservation¡¯. GCI Newsletter 7 (1), pp.4-7
*Michalski, S. 1994. ¡®A systematic approach to preservation. Description and integration with other museum activities¡¯, in (Eds.) Roy Ashok and Perry Smith, Preventive Conservation. Practice Theory and research,
Preprints of the Contributions to the Ottawa Congress, 12-16 September, pp.8-11.
(€) De Guichen, Ga?l (1999) Preventive conservation: a mere fad or far-reaching change? Museum International (UNESCO, Paris), No. 201, Vol. 51, No. 1, 4-6
(€) Foekje Boersma (2016). ¡®Preventive conservation-more than ¡®dusting objects¡¯? An overview of the development of the preventive conservation profession¡¯. Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 39:1, 3-17.
*S. Knell, 1994. ¡®Introduction: The context of collections care¡¯, in (ed.) Simon J. Knell, Care of collections, London and New York: Routledge, 1-10.
(€) Kaplan, E. et.al. 2005. ¡®Integrating preventive conservation into a collections move and rehousing project at the national museum of the American Indian¡¯, JAIC, Vol 44, Nr.3, 217-232
*Staniforth, S. 2006. ¡®Agents of deterioration¡¯, in The National Trust Manual of Housekeping. The care of collections in historic houses open to the public. Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp.45-53.
Lecture 9: Stewardship, an integral approach to responsible use of collections
(€) Ashley-Smith, J. (2002). ¡®Sustainability and precaution ¨C Part 1. Conservation Journal, Spring, Issue 40.
(€) Ashley-Smith, J. (2003). ¡®Sustainability and precaution ¨C Part 2 How precautionary should we be?. Conservation Journal, Spring, Issue 44.
(€) De Silva, M. and Hendersen, J. (2011) Sustainability in conservation practice. Journal of the Institute of Conservation, Volume 34, Issue 1, pp.5-15.
(€) Podany, Jerry (2009) Sustainable Stewardship: Preventive conservation in a changing world
(€) Claire Fry, Amber Xavier-Rowe, Frances Halahan and Jennifer Dinsmore, 2007. What¡¯s causing the damage! The use of a combined solution-based risk assessment and condition audit,, in (eds.) Tim Padfield and Karen Borchersen, Museum Microclimates, National Museum of Denmark ,Copenhagen, pp.107-114.
*Avrami, E. 2009. ¡®Heritage, Values, and Sustainability¡¯, in (Eds) Alison Richmond and Alison Bracker, Conservation. Principles, Dilemmas and Uncomfortable Truths, Butterworth and Heinemann, Amsterdam, pp.177-183.