2002/02/01 by Randolph Starn
Arts and Humanities · #Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
paper · doi:10.1177/0952695102015001070
openalex publication_date 2002/02/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Authenticity was neither an exclusive criterion nor even a keyword in the rise of the historic preservation movement before the heated controversies over `Heritage' beginning in the late 1960s. Both advocates and critics have tended to ignore or oversimplify an actual history of non-dogmatic but not at all unprincipled reflection, analysis and professional practice. From the writings of Alois Riegl and Camillo Boito around 1900 through ongoing debates over the ideal of authenticity put forth by the Venice Charter of 1964, this history represents a major and an authentic contribution to understanding the values, possibilities and complications of preserving the past.