Konserwować czy restaurować?

• Authors: Kubiak Janusz

Title variants

EN

TO PRESERVE OR TO RESTORE?

• Languages of publication: PL EN

Abstracts

EN

Selected works by Professor Jan Zachwatowicz published just recently dispose one to reflections on an ever actual problem: to preserve or to restore? This subject was disccused in Poland in the first years a fter the 2nd World War. As their main argument the advocates of the restoration, and even of reconstruction, put forward a tragic condition of the Polish culture, destroyed deliberately by the Nazists. Followers of the preservation agreed with the principle of the above argument; still, they had doubts with regard to both the ex tent of the works and at the same time they warned, for future purposes, against the situation when the total society would come to the false convinction that the proper and just conservation of monuments meant their reconstruction. This provided the base for disputes whether protection is to cover only a form or, speaking in other words, ’’appearance” of a historic building or to include also its authentic mater Lad structure. The method of restoration and reconstruction has been recognized as proper in a specific situation of the ruined country as ”a method of procedure in specific dramatic circumstances”, refraining from any conservation doctrine. Defenders of this approach realized clearly that such measures had an emergency nature and were fu lly aware of ’’the tragedy of committed conservation deceit”. For many years this exceptional situation has been observed to drag on into infinity, suspending precise recommendations of the doctrine. This ground is conducive to mass neurosis involving not only the population but also the authorities and even conservators and architects themselves — where ’’the creation of monuments reproduction” is identified with typical duties of conservation services, though there is less and less association with a genuine object.” We have more and more monuments and an ever smaller number of original products.” This comment made by Professor Ksawery Piwocki in 1946 has not unfortunately become outdated. It is the highest time to call off ’’special circumstances” and to come back to ’’the conservation doctrine”.

Keywords

PL

konserwować czy restaurować; Jan Zachwatowicz; Ksawery Piwocki; teoria konserwatorstwa; doktryna konserwatorska

• Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa
• Journal: Ochrona Zabytków
• Year: 1983
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 17-19

Dates

published

1983

Contributors

author

Kubiak Janusz

• mgr, PP PKZ — Oddział Badań i Konserwacji Warszawa

References

• J. Z a c h w a t o w i c z , Wybor prac, „Biblioteka Muzealnictwa i Ochrony Zabytkow”, seria B, t. LXVIII, Warszawa 1981.
• Tamże — O polskiej szkole konserwacji i rekons trukcji zabytkow, s. 52.
• K. P i w o c k i , Recenzja — Walter Frodl, Pojęcia i kryteria wartościowania zabytkow, „Biuletyn Historii Sztuki”, nr 1, r. XXIX, 1967, s. 89.
• K. P i w o c k i , Uwagi o odbudowie zabytkow, „Biuletyn Historii Sztuki i Konserwacji” nr 1/2, r. VIII, 1946, s. 53.
• T. C h r z a n o w s k i , Dwa aspekty postępowania konserwatorskiego: zespołowy i autorski, (w:) Dzieło sztukii zabytek. Materiały z X X V Sesji SHS; „Biblioteka Muzealnictwa i Ochrony Zabytkow”, seria B, t. XLIII, Warszawa 1976, s. 84.
• J. F r y c z e m , Restauracja i konserwacja zaby tkow architektury w Polsce w latach 1795—1918, Warszawa 1975, s. 107.

Identifiers

ISSN

0029-8247