Practice question · True or false
A work designed to weather and decay is deteriorating in the sense a conservator would normally act on.
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- Ask what the change was intended to do.
- The change is the work operating rather than failing.
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False
Why
False, and the distinction has real consequences. If the change was intended, arresting it is an intervention in the work rather than care for it, so the conservator's decision turns on the artist's intention rather than on the condition of the material.
Practise The Body, Space and Nature
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