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200 10$aCurated decay $eheritage beyond saving /$fCaitlin DeSilvey
210   $aMinneapolis, Minn. $cUniv. of Minnesota P.$d2017
215   $a1 online resource (233 p.) $cill
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $a1. Postpreservation: looking past loss -- 2. Memory's ecologies: curating mutability in Montana -- 3. When story meets the storm: unsafe harbor -- 4. Orderly decay: philosophies of non-intervention -- 5. A positive passivity: plants as entropic agents -- 6. Boundary work: nature-culture in practice -- 7. Palliative curation: the death of a lighthouse -- 8. Beyond saving: care without conservation.
330   $aTransporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with-rather than defend against-natural processes. Curated Decay chronicles DeSilvey's travels to places where experiments in curated ruination and creative collapse are under way, or under consideration. It uses case studies from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to explore how objects and structures produce meaning not only in their preservation and persistence, but also in their decay and disintegration. Through accessible and engaging discussion of specific places and their stories, it traces how cultural memory is generated in encounters with ephemeral artifacts and architectures. An interdisciplinary reframing of the concept of the ruin that combines historical and philosophical depth with attentive storytelling, Curated Decay represents the first attempt to apply new theories of materiality and ecology to the concerns of critical heritage studies.
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