Talk:Art conservation and restoration

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Spunth 05:32, 19 August 2006 (UTC)One can not say that the opposite of art restoration is art destruction when restoration is not, in fact, bringing the orignal art work back or saving it. It simply invents a new version, a close approximation, of the original or how we imagine the orignal once was. One of the great writers in the field, John Ruskin, (The Seven Lamps of Architecture,1886) called restoration the ultimate destruction. Preservation and conservation, at their core, are closer to an opposite of destruction.

This article is in the beginning stages and needs a lot of work. This is a fairly complex field, one that is charged with the care of cultural property. Ricardisimo 15:41, 20 October 2006 (UTC)