Teoria i prace konserwatorskie w ogrodach i parkach : rekonstrukcja jako metoda postępowania

• Authors: Michałowski Andrzej

Title variants

EN

Conservation of gardens and parks — reconstruction as a method of conduct

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

The protection of gardens and parks, various forms of cultural property, and especially professional undertakings known as conservation, are by no means isolated from the philosophical, social and aesthetic views of the period in which we live and embark upon our tasks. From 1903, the year in which Alois Riegl published a booklet entitled: Der moderne Denkmalkultus. Sein Wesen und siene Entstehung, the world of conservation has been subjected to various impacts and pressure which have led to the desintegration of opinions and the emergence of national, regional and local schools susceptible to fashions and different aesthetic- philosophical trends. On the one hand, we are dealing with the influence of nineteenth-century theories about social progress attained thanks to the triumph of man over nature and about the dialectical Jaws of the motion and development of Nature, human society and thought', formulated by F. Engels. On the other hand, a new era of art was inaugurated by the famous manifesto of Italian Futurists who in 1909 severed all ties with tradition and called for the destruction of museums; this was a forecast of an art which would strive to be aggressive and original at all cost. Aesthetic-philosophical theories and art abandoned tradition and the symbiosis of the art of the past with Nature; they have foresaken the values of the cultural landscape and announced the construction of the new upon the ruins of the old in the belief that the latter halts all progress. In these conditions, conservation could find no support in philosophy or aesthetics. The history of art opted for interpretation, and has relegated knowledge about art to the margin. The convictions of conservators became eclectic and constitute an unsystematized collection of various ideas, linked together by pragmatic activity. The source of the weakness of protection of cultural property lies in the fact that it has not become a component of contemporary culture or a „machine” for the aesthetic and historical education of society. It has also not become part of a school or academic programme nor does it influence the moulding of the personality of modern man who lives only for the present and does not gaze into the past. Conservation is a creative scientific-artistic realm. Its creativity does not signify transformations, the destruction of existing values and views to be replaced by new ones; conservation is a domain whose scientific, interdisciplinary cognition and active creativity restores to national and human culture universal qualities produced by the eternal historical process.

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1993
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 236-240

Dates

published

1993

Contributors

author

Michałowski Andrzej

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Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247