Problems of completion, ethics and scientifical investigation in the restoration [antikvár]

PREFACE The third International Restorer Seminar was organized by the Institute for Conservation and Methodology of Museums, as to the traditions in Veszprém, in summer of the year 1981. More than a hundred of specialists from abroad and from Hungary participated in round about fortv lectures and discussions in the course of the five official days. The Seminar aim^d at discussing the method of completion of the art objects, its ethical problems, as weil as the role of the scientific analvses in restoration. This is the completion, which is the phase of the restoration when ethical questions come into prominence, particularly. For this reason we deem it advisable to put on the agenda once more, continuing the basic conception of the seminar of 1978. The majority of the lectures dealt with ethical questions while demonstrating the course of the restoration of certain objects. In addition to the slides, the reports were completed and enriched with presentation of objects, films and instruments. Our present publication contains the delivered lectures during the seminar, those texts which were sent but not reported because of prevention of the authors and selected illustrations. The papers of György Kovács, Tibor Szilágyi and Joachim Szvetnick will be published in the Yearbook of the Institute for Conservation and Methodology of Museums, in the next issue of the Muzeumi Műtárgyvédelem resp., and the text of the lecture of Zsuzsa Szurdoki has been edited in the volume Nr. 7. of the same publication, already. We do hope the present edition recalls the listened lectures of the conference for those who participated at the activity of the session, and for those, who were absent serves as a useful reading.