17. Art & Ethics 6: Art Restoration

There are several components to this lesson:

1. When does an artwork need restoration?

2. What are the means of doing so? For works on paper, works on canvas, and for sculptures?

3. How does it happen that some restorers do such a bad job?

4. What exactly is "restoration"? Do we want to bring it back to what it originally looked like, or do we want to preserve some of the other artists who also worked on, or over, the work after its completion?

5. What about extreme cases like vandalism?

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