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Réf.

43576

Type

book

Titre

Cultural heritage in the Arctic and Antarctic regions

Langues

English

Auteurs

Ashley, Geoff / Barr, Susan / Blanchette, Robert A. / Chaplin, Paul / Farrell, Roberta / Hacquebord, Louwrens / Hughes, Janet / Jensen, Anne M. / Le Mouël, Jean-François / Lüdecke, Cornelia / Mackay, Richard / Olynyk, Doug / Pearson, Michael / Sheehan, Glenn W. / Stehberg, Ruben

Éditeurs

Barr, Susan / Chaplin, Paul

Auteurs institutionnels

International Polar Heritage Committee

Lieu de publication

Oslo

Pays de publication

Norway

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS IPHC (International Polar Heritage Committee)

Date

2004

Pages

78 p.

Collection

Monuments and Sites

N° dans la collection

ISBN

82-996891-1-2

Mots-clés

polar heritage / Arctic regions / Antarctic regions / historic sites / conservation of historic sites / deterioration / climatic factors / huts / management plans / indigenous peoples / meteorological measurements and instruments / conservation policy / history / theory of conservation / heritage at risk / management / causes of deterioration / effects of deterioration

Pays mentionnés

Australia / Canada / France / Netherlands / United States

Monuments et sites

Historic huts on Ross Island, Antarctica / Mawson's Hut, Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica / Kerguelen Islands / South Shetland Islands

Résumé en anglais

Polar heritage is a witness to the pioneer spirit of the polar explorers from various countries and keeps alive the memory of sometimes highly dramatic events during the race to explore the last untouched regions of the world. The ephemeral character of this fragile heritage scattered across the polar wilderness shows once more that we today define the term “monuments and sites“ as places of memory and historic sites in the widest sense. Here the task of the monument conservation authorities is to protect and save the last traces, including of course written and pictorial documentations of what will be irretrievably lost due to natural processes of decay. In view of the particular aesthetic quality of these photographic sources certain parallels between the results of our documentation and conservation endeavours on the one hand and tendencies of 20th-century art, especially the international art movement since the 1970s dedicated to “securing traces“ on the other hand, suggest themselves. The documentation by the Polar Heritage Committee proves that under these circumstances even “rubbish“ can become relics. Also in this case conservationists who are sometimes reproached for practising a modern cult of relics are able to justify their concern over the “historic fabric“ by maintaining that only the monuments which have been preserved on the authentic places and in their authentic materials despite all the scars of time and the growing signs of decay are authentic documents of human history. [Extract from Michael Petzet’s preface]

URL

https://www.iphc-icomos.org/polar-heritage-resources/iphc-papers

Document joint

K649-Monuments_and_Sites-v08-2004.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

N° d'entrée et cote

K-649