CULTURAL HERITAGE PROTECTION IN AUSTRIA
Cultural Heritage is a non-reproducible and manifold value.It is not a ”container” , which can be emptied and refilled as often as desired—even,if not to say particularly not in our digital age,which, referring to Walter Benjamin, has already gone far beyond the possibility of mechanical reproduction of art works.This should be taken into account especially in the question of protecting our built heritage, which shapes our environment and influences our daily life more than any other cultural asset.In Austria the major goals in the protection of monuments are reaching back to the beginning of the 20th century and to one of the masterminds of heritage protection, Alois Riegl.His main principle reads ”conserve, do not restore”.Restoring parts of a monument or monuments in their entirety has to remain the exception to the rule and should only be used to bring back to life monuments which are of emblematic character for the national or regional identity.It never can be a general compensation for a lasting heritage protection in order to restore monuments, which have been neglected for a long time, maliciously destroyed or overwhelmed by sprawling contemporary developments.This is effective for ”analog” means (i.e.actually restoring monuments) as well as for digital ones (i.e.to make monuments arise in virtual reality).Nevertheless the use of contemporary technologies is crucial in the field of heritage protection and conservation, as long as it is exercised for the right purposes, such as communicating the values of cultural heritage to a wide public, visualizing intended contemporary interventions in historical areas or bringing to life historical developments which led to the present state of our heritage sites.Presuming this, the means of digitization are an efficient supplement to the toolkit for a comprehensive heritage protection but never can replace the latter.The daily business of protecting and conserving monuments in Austria is based on these principles.
Austria cultural heritage protection UNESCO World Heritage legislation
R.V.Proeckl
Federal Chancellery of Austria, Division for Arts and Culture,Department Ⅱ-4 Cultural Heritage and Art Restitution Concordiaplatz 2,1010 Wien
国内会议
北京
英文
266-274
2016-08-08（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）