Globe Conservation Studies

by Patricia Engel

Das Buch ist für den Restaurator und den Globusfreund gleichermaßen geschrieben. Globenrestaurierung fußt einerseits auf Restaurierungstheorien und bedarf andererseits des intensiven Studiums dieser außergewöhnlichen Kulturgüter. Das Buch liefert dem Restaurator konkrete Vorschläge und versorgt den Sammler und Museumskurator mit wertvollen Hinweisen zu fachgerechter Lagerung, Handhabung und Präsentation. Das Buch bringt neue Forschungsergebnisse, z.B. zum Thema Metallgloben mit Papierzwickeln und weist auf den Nutzen, die die Kenntnis der Materialität von Globen auch anderen Disziplinen in der Forschung bringt hin. Das Buch basiert auf über 30 Jahren Erfahrung der Autorin auf dem Gebiet.

Globe-Conservation is based on theories and intense studies. This book is written for the conservator-restorer to give him or her new knowledge, especially the chapter on globes made of metal spheres with paper gores is an entirely new research work. But also the other parts are systematized and exhaustively researched. It is also written for the layman to make him or her appreciate the globe at hand, possibly in his or her property even more and to guide him or her to store, handle and keep it properly.

Finally the book will be interesting for the researcher on globes, as it might open a historian, a geographer etc. his or her eyes for the material used in the globes and the information inherent in it.

The material is based on the 30 years experience of the author in the field of conservation-restoration in general and globe conservation in particular.

Kindle Edition

Published March 3, 2014

About the author

Patricia Engel is the author of five books including The Faraway World; Infinite Country, a New York Times Bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick; The Veins of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris, winner of the International Latino Book Award; and Vida, a finalist for the Pen/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, New York Times Notable Book, and winner of Colombia’s national book award, the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents, Patricia teaches creative writing at the University of Miami.