Coping with the Past

Creative perspectives on conservation and restoration

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Edited by Pasquale Gagliardi, Bruno Latour, Pedro Memelsdorff.
Published by Leo S. Olschki, Civiltà Veneziana Studi 52
Year: 2010
208 pages in B/W, softcover
Language: English
ISBN: 9788822259936

Following the unveiling of Factum Arte's facsimile on the end wall of Palladio's refectory, many art critics and experts immediately began to question both the emotional response that the facsimile provoked and the authenticity of the experience of seeing a facsimile of this size and quality in its original Location. In November 2007 an interdisciplinary group including Bruno Latour, Pasquale Gagliardi, Joseph Koerner, Pedro Memmelsdorff, Carlo Ginsburg, Richard Powers, Steven Feld, David Western, Shirley Strumm, Albena Yaneva, Frederick Brenk and Adam Lowe met to discuss the the implications of the return of the Wedding at Cana to the Monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore. This book contains the transcripts of that dialogue.

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This book is based on the 2007 Dialogo di San Giorgio entitled Inheriting the past. Tradition, translation, betrayal, innovation. The topic for the seminar was chosen in relation to a celebrated Giorgio Cini Foundation project: the creation of a facsimile of Paolo Veronese’s Wedding at Cana, an event which had a wide international echo and led to a wideranging debate on the relationship between the original and the copy. The Dialogo explored the issue of the relationship with tradition in four different kinds of cultural legacy: the visual arts, music, ecosystems and texts. The analysis focused particularly on the contribution that the new technologies can offer to enable us to inherit the past “well”. The participants at the seminar included internationally renowned experts and artists, such as Frederick Brenk, Steven Feld, Carlo Ginzburg, Joseph Koerner, Bruno Latour, Adam Lowe, Pedro Memelsdorff, Richard Powers, Shirley Strum, David Western and Albena Yaneva.

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