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‘There is nothing more practical than a good theory’: Conceptual tools for conservation practice

2016; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 61; Issue: sup2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00393630.2016.1188647

2047-0584

Muriel Verbeeck,

Artistic and Creative Research

Faced with the growing number of case studies in contemporary art, philosophy provides conservators with a series of conceptual tools that allow to theorize their practice. The notion of intentionality and attentionality borrowed from Genette enables a better understanding of the problems that Dirty Corner by Anish Kapoor (a work vandalized on many occasions) poses. I will show that the conservator deals with the issue of the identity of a contemporary work in a different way from the art historian, and that philosophy is a practical tool to understand the specificity of the former's approach and intervention.