{"product_id":"the-monumental-challenge-of-preservation-isbn-9780262548984","title":"The Monumental Challenge of Preservation","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe monuments—movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible—of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, vandalism, and neglect make the work of preservation a greater challenge than it has been since World War II. In \u003ci\u003eThe Monumental Challenge of Preservation\u003c\/i\u003e Michèle Cloonan makes the case that, at this critical juncture, we must consider preservation in the broadest possible contexts. Preservation requires the efforts of an increasing number of stakeholders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn order to explore the cultural, political, technological, economic, and ethical dimensions of preservation, Cloonan examines particular monuments and their preservation dilemmas. The massive Bamiyan Buddhas, blown up by the Taliban in 2001, are still the subject of debates over how, or whether, to preserve what remains, and the U. S. National Park Service has undertaken the complex task of preserving the symbolic and often ephemeral objects that visitors leave at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial—to take just two of the many examples described in the book. Cloonan also considers the ongoing genocide and cultural genocide in Syria; the challenges of preserving our digital heritage; the dynamic between original and copy; efforts to preserve the papers and architectural fragments of the architect Louis Sullivan; and the possibility of sustainable preservation. In the end, Cloonan suggests, we are what we preserve—and don't preserve. Every day we make preservation decisions, individually and collectively, that have longer-term ramifications than we might expect.Illustration Credits ix\u003cbr\u003ePreface xv\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xxi\u003cbr\u003eI Context 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: We Are What We Preserve--and Don't Preserve 3\u003cbr\u003e2 A Tale of Monuments in Two Cities 27\u003cbr\u003eII Cultural Genocide 45\u003cbr\u003e3 To Destroy Culture: Raphael Lemkin's Lessons about Genocide and How They Relate to the Preservation of Cultural Heritage 47\u003cbr\u003e4 Documenting Cultural Heritage in Syria 65\u003cbr\u003eIII Approaches to Preservation 85\u003cbr\u003e5 Collecting as Preservation 87\u003cbr\u003e6 Worth Dying For? Richard Nickel and Historic Preservation in Chicago 105\u003cbr\u003eIV Information or Object? 127\u003cbr\u003e7 What Are We \u003ci\u003eReally \u003c\/i\u003eTrying to Preserve: The Original or the Copy? 129\u003cbr\u003e8 It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Some Thoughts on Digital Preservation 137\u003cbr\u003eV The Greening of Preservation 153\u003cbr\u003e9 Sustainable Preservation 155\u003cbr\u003eVI Enduring, Ephemeral Preservation 175\u003cbr\u003e10 Preservation: Enduring or Ephemeral? 177\u003cbr\u003e11 Epilogue: Berlin as a City of Reconciliation and Preservation 187\u003cbr\u003eNotes 217\u003cbr\u003eBibliography 249\u003cbr\u003eIndex 269Michèle Valerie Cloonan is Professor in the School of Library and Information Science and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44866455732453,"sku":"NP9780262548984","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262548984.jpg?v=1767740556","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-monumental-challenge-of-preservation-isbn-9780262548984","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}