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Réf.

41859

Type

conference item

Titre

God and conservators : seeing the invisible on a wall

Langues

English

Auteurs

Swiecka, Ewa

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

8 p.

Addenda

Handwritten page numbers 282-289 on the printed collected papers.

Titre de conférence

14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’

Lieu de conférence

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Date de conférence

27 – 31 oct 2003

Mots-clés

wall paintings / places of religion and ritual / intangible values / beliefs / conservation / intangible cultural heritage

Résumé en anglais

Wall decorations and drawings are present in various cultures. Mural paintings, like tradition, are fixed to a place. Conservation became much more science than art, as it was in the beginning of heritage care; conservators/restorers of art objects are usually the most interested in the methods of practice. Professional exchange of technical experience during numerous meetings concerns mainly “case studies”. The training of conservators is focused on issues of art, technology and crafts. The discussion of what is more important, the historical or aesthetic aspect of paintings, has a long tradition. It is not so often that the third, invisible dimension of preserved evidence is noticed: the spiritual value of a painting. “In situ” problems of conservation are not always solved by professionals. Regarding the places of worship of various belief systems, local communities have sometimes preferences different from modern trends of heritage protection. Presenting the traces of interior paintings, on one hand, and painting over it to look like newly-made, on the other, is not a question of approach between Eastern and Western understanding of authenticity, but a different way of care. The lot of painted Gods depends on believers.

Ressource intégrale

yes

Document joint

C1-6_-_Swieka_+_photos.pdf

Licence

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

Document source

26567 - English #26567

N° d'entrée et cote

14852