{"id":4541,"date":"2012-07-18T17:05:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T22:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2012-07-18T17:05:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T22:05:25","slug":"conservation-fiction-as-outreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2012\/07\/18\/conservation-fiction-as-outreach\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Conservation fiction&#8221; as outreach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/the_restorer-daniela_murphy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5375\" title=\"the_restorer-daniela_murphy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/the_restorer-daniela_murphy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Two novels published in the past two years which feature conservation, forgery and\/or damaged works of art have garnered more attention than most novels. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/13318534-the-restorer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Restorer&#8221;<\/a>, by Daniela Murphy Corella, in which a conservator-restorer uncovers a lost fresco in a remote Italian church, was awarded First prize in the 2012 International Rubery Book competition. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholieren.com\/boekverslag\/69127\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Duel&#8221;<\/a>, by Joost Zwargerman, a novel in which a conservator is an important character and in which a valuable painting by Mark Rothko is copied, stolen, and accidentally damaged, was commissioned in 2011 as the &#8220;Book Week in the Netherlands&#8221; giveaway book and distributed to hundreds of thousands of people free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>If even a small number of the readers of these books and other works of &#8220;conservation fiction&#8221; gain from them some understanding of conservation, then these novels will have served a valuable outreach function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two novels published in the past two years which feature conservation, forgery and\/or damaged works of art have garnered more attention than most novels. &#8220;The Restorer&#8221;, by Daniela Murphy Corella, in which a conservator-restorer uncovers a lost fresco in a remote Italian church, was awarded First prize in the 2012 International Rubery Book competition. &#8220;Duel&#8221;, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2012\/07\/18\/conservation-fiction-as-outreach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Conservation fiction&#8221; as outreach?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":5375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[285],"class_list":["post-4541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allied-organizations","category-in-the-news","tag-conservation-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}