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Past discontinuous: restoration fragments – Irina Sandomirskaya – New Literary Review – 2022 – ISBN 978-5-4448-1841-1

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As faith in the future is lost and uncertainty in the present grows, the political significance and social value of the past increases. Along with the two main discourses - history and memory - there is a third form of transmission and existence of the past in the present. Irina Sandomirskaya proposes the concept of restoration for this category. Her book explores restoration as an area of practical and strategic action associated with the manipulation of the materiality and value of specific artifacts of the past, as well as the enrichment of their symbolic and material value in the present. What role do the imagination and practices of restoration play in the creation of national and imperial ideologies of history, mass movements for the protection of monuments and the commercialization of cultural heritage? What strategies for recreating the desired past did Soviet restoration use, in particular? And what are the irresolvable contradictions between the protective desires of modern man - the subject of the era of total destruction - and the past that is constantly eluding him?
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