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Retablos & Santos: ‘Altaring’ The Life Of Philippine Heritage Through Future Generations
Anastazja Harding, Nicole Tse, Ana LABRADOR
Trans-discipline Approach: Challenges on Art for the Future of Technology, Science, and Humanity (Reflection, Interaction and Projection) | Aula Barat and Faculty of Art and Design, Bandung Institute of Technology | Published : 2018
Abstract
This paper aims to examine the role of living cultural heritage to materials conservation and restoration of retablos and santos at the National Museum of Fine Arts in the Philippines (NMP) and the Parish Church of La Purísima Concepción in Guiuan. In researching the restoration practices of cultural communities that retablos and santos hold significance to, this paper is framed by textual analysis, and interviews with heritage, ecclesiastic and conservation professionals. With ever-increasing cultural homogenisation, the importance of conservators working towards preventing cultural identities from being absorbed by universal discourses and popular cultures are argued in this paper. In refl..
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