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The first conservations started in this country already within the early period of the newly formed political and social system. On August 30, 1945 an extensive programme of activities in this field has been formally approved; as a consequence of unprecedented losses suffered by cultural heritage in Poland the necessity emerged to rebuild the key elements of the country’s culture. In the 1960’s the interest of practicizing Conservators' and restorers Was chiefly focused on protection of historical monuments that have survived and only in recent years may foe observed some signes o f return to practices from the early years after the country's liberation. No doubt, however, that a good deal of experience gathered during the thirty years of activities greatly contributed to development of both theoretical and practical knowledge of those dealing with conservation and restoration. In 1972 once again was established the post of Chief Conservator to make the skilled care of architectural and townplanming monuments more effective. The ranks of conservators and restorers undertaking their work in 1944—1945 were extremely scarce, however, they were growing systematically with the passing time and now some deficits are to be noted only in the government conservation services. Unlike in early post-war years, when the restoration and conservation were carried out by various working teams and companies, at present they are realized by a state-owned company known as The Ateliers for Conservation of Cultural Property entrusted with almost monopolistic rights and active not only in this country but also abroad. Contributions made by that Company to restoration of entire urban centres and especially of ancient palaces, castles and sacred buildings were quite enormous. Acting since January 1962, being the date of its establishment, the Historical Monuments Documentation Centre, Warsaw is responsible for specialized publications, collecting of information and giving as extensive as possible aid to conservators and restorers. An undisputable merit of Polish conservators consists in publication, since 1948, of a quarterly “Protection of Historical Monuments” and of a series known as the “Library of Museums and Historical Monuments Protection”. Both popularity and interest in conservation were most vivid in 1945—1955 but in the 1960’s some stagnation prevailed; at present the situation improved which the fact may be evidenced by appearance of numerous publications, organization of an all- country action called „The Monuments are awaiting their owners” and the establishing of the Society for Preservation of Cultural Property. As is well known fact the foreign professional circles are highly appreciating our achievements in art of conservation and the Polish conservators have deserved a wide reputation.
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The recent dozen or so years have seen in Polish community the loss of feeling of the value of authenticity in historical monuments. More and more supported and promoted is being the creation of illusions and at the same time apologized the indifference toward the need to preserve the authentic objects or even non-interventionism. To meet the natural needs of people to keep in touch with witnesses of the past is proposed the contact with the objects rebuilt. To determine the interrelation between the architectural object and the authenticity the author has subsequently carried out a partial analysis of material, the authenticity of technological and construction methods used in the process of creation, the authenticity of function as well as that of form, the authenticity of effect and associations. While concluding his considerations the author stated that the authenticity by itself represents some value determined by existence of an abject to whom it is ascribed and thus may be regarded as a positive value giving to the object some definite dignity. On the other hand, the authenticity ceases to exist at the moment at Which the existence of the object itself ceased. The authenticity is to be considered, therefore, as an summarized value consisting of the aforementioned partial authenticities. At the same time, however, it is the object’s supreme value having its effect on iboth existence and the amount of its other values. From the essence of an architectural object regarded as some kind of work of art it follows that it is not free from some ineficiencies in its definition which require that a range of definitions be added by an individual looking at it. However, the appropriate concretization of that additional definition may take place on an authentic object only and not on that falsified.
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The national conistrubultion to the Racławice Panorama appears to be very significant; the people invoked inspiration for its creation and organised various rescue actions in the difficult periods of its history. The author goes back to the time when the national appreciation of the victorious battle of Racławice was felt to be capable of upholding the patriotic spirit of the nation and for thiis reason it was decided to finance the Panorama. He presents several cases when this national monument was rescued but he highlights social actions after April 1944 when the pavilion in Lvov was destroyed, the painting damaged, rolled up, stared and eventually taken to Wrocław. Attention is drawn to the fact that it was only the activities of the last Racławice Panorama Social Committee — widely supported by the Polish people at home and abroad, assisted and highly appreciated in respect of their significance by the authorities — that seem to have contributed successfully to the saving of the Racławice Panorama and to making it available to the public again.
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A unique love of freedom, and thus an exclusive right to dispose of one’s own property as well as a tradition of a group determination of the conditions of any activity influence also programmes of monuments protection in the United States of America. At the same time a sense of national distinctness has got increased recently to such a degree that there appeared strong tendencies for the necessity to rescue own heritage. Some of the actions are undertaken by federal bodies; still, to a bigger extent they are done on a state level and smaller territorial units, mainly towns. They are initiated and organised by various groups, associations and municipal authorites. The latter wish to recover tax payments from temporarily abandoned buildings and also to revive complexes often situated in the centre of towns. An example of such action is Baltimore, while an illustration of joint ventures of municipal authorities and social organisations are New Orlean and San Francisco. The author discussed them thinking that to some degree they may be helpful in organising the participation of the society in works on behalf of the preservation of monuments in .Poland.
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A SUMMARY OF A STATEMENT BY A. BILLERT The importance of article by J. Stankiewicz has been uuierlined by the author who is of opinion that it deserves the more attention owing to the fact alone that it deals wiih questions until now not dealt in any more comprehensive manner. Tin author of the present statement has focussed his attention on the problem of some kind of demarcation between the protected spatial settings coming from the past times and the modern architectural and town planning solutions. At the moment when it has come to a direct contact between these two kinds of settings a crisis has arisen in the range of preservation and protection of historical monuments having its background in changes occurring in social consciousness and culture as well as a crisis of the man’s civilizational environment and within it another crisis, this time the crisis of a town as such. The next problem considered by the author consists in transmission of components of culture; ho s tat os that under modern conditions the museum concept is more and more frequently rejected, nevertheless, in every-day practice we have constantly to do with processes of pronounced isolation of the so-called „historic space” from the modern „standardization” which, as a final consequence, leads to „musealisation” . The author of the present statement is in full agreement with J. Stankiewicz in his views concerning the need to create some kind of „sanitary barrior” between the „historic space” and that standardized. Taking an a ttitude towards J. Stankiewicz’s postulate rolating to interdesciplinarity required in conservator’s measures the author expresses a view that the protection of historical monuments exists only as a problem or activity and not as an independent scientific discipline since it in itself constitutes a choice of various specializations from both fields — i.e. technical sciences and humanities. In the field conservation are active the representatives of creative disciplines and reflections as to their activ ities arise in the field of art history, those of aesthetics or history of architecture. The so-called conservation activity is a kind of activity from the sphere of culture and art its evaluation, however, will in each separate case have two aspects — i.e. analytical and critical as well. Basing on the above conclusions the author is of opinion that the solution of problem of demarcation between two environments is to be found in the modern creative activity of developing the space as some kind of entity. From this point of view it seems not important to fight against a single standardized multi-storey point block of flats entering the historic space, but to fight fo preservation of the entire spa,ce. This means the end of a certain stage in protection of historical monuments and the advent of now ideas more dialectically handling the reality.
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