Abstract
Despite today's growing scientism, restoration remains a
discipline of undeniable speculative character. Certainly the tasks of con
The preservation of cultural property will always be governed by a necessary
laughed spirit of objectivity. However, the restoration tasks themselves
said you configure a much more unstable work environment from the point of view
view of the application of criteria. The cleaning or the recomposition of pintu
archaeological remains, sculptures or remains cannot be set by standards
or rigid theoretical schemes. Contrary to what happens in conservation,
In these tasks things can be in different ways, and these depend,
fundamentally, the way that artistic objects function in the context of
spectator science. Perhaps this optional character of the restaurant
ration is what gives you the most difficulty but, at the same time, also gives you more
yor attractive.
With some required transformations of the original text, the following article
It has been extracted from «Fondo y figura. The sense of restoration in art with
temporary »(Editorial Polifemo, 2008). This kind of art is probably
one of the most conflictive fields of work for the development of criteria, and
hence the interest in everything related to the theoretical aspects of art arises
and restoration. If, as I understand it, the social functioning of art is
on the basis of any theoretical proposal on its restoration, it seems from the
maximum importance to deepen the knowledge of the particular nature
contemporary art, today as full of uncertainties as in its
beginnings. The article that follows is intended to contribute something to this co
knowledge dealing with one of the thorniest issues in artistic theory.