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Nora Krause: Iconoclasm, attacks and assassinations. Dealing with Iconoclasms in the foeld of restoration Back
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Abstract: In the field of the history of restoration three iconoclasms are examined and analyzed that happened between 1986 and 1997 in German and Dutch museums. The focus lies on two paintings by Barnett Newman, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III and Cathedra in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, as well as the paintings of the Paumgartner Altarpiece, the Lamentation of Christ and Mary as Mother of Sorrows by Albrecht Dürer in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Michel Foucaults discourse theory and discourse analysis have been chosen as an approach to examining and describing the historical developments in restoration. Their fundamental principles are set forth in the first part of the paper and modified in such a way as to allow an analysis of how the destruction of art can be considered as a problem in restoration under the point of view of discourse theory. In the second part of the paper a historical analysis in the sense of a scientific description of past restauration processes will be carried out, emphasising more than previous approaches in restoration theory the correlation between the use of language and other sign systems in order to reveal formal and contentual structurizations in restoration. Finally, questions and ideas will be identified to guide research, which show up points where discourse theory ties in with various issues in restoration.

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  • academic institution: Technische Hochschule Köln
  • kind of theses:  Diplomarbeit
  • main Tutor:  Prof. Gunnar Heydenreich
  • assistant Tutor:  Prof. Achim Landwehr
  • date:  2011
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