Preservationist

Preservationist is generally understood to mean historic preservationist: one who advocates to preserve architecturally or historically significant buildings, structures, objects, or sites from demolition or degradation. Historic preservation usually refers to the preservation of the built environment, not to the preservation of, for instance, primeval forests or wilderness.[1]

Preservationist is, however, sometimes used descriptively in other contexts, notably with regard to language and the environment.

## Contents

* 1 Other uses of the term
* 2 Notable historic preservationists
* 3 Notable conservationists
* 4 Notable environmentalists
* 5 See also
* 6 References

## Other uses of the term

Persons who work to preserve ancient or endangered languages are called language preservationists.[2]

* Clarification: Ethnologue, a reference work published by SIL International, has cataloged the world's known living languages, and it estimates that 417 languages are on the verge of extinction.[3]

Preservationist is also sometimes used in the natural environmentalist field, but while the natural environment conservationist movements preserve ecosystems and the natural environment, this movement is widely known as conservation or environmentalism.

* Clarification: A key difference between the Preservationist and Conservationist environmentalist schools is this: Preservationists view the environment as having intrinsic value that should be preserved by making as little change to it as possible. Conservationists view the environment as having instrumental value that can be of help to people,[4] and generally accept Gifford Pinchot's notion of sustainable yield: that man can harvest some forest or animal products from a natural environment on a regular basis without compromising the long-health of the ecosystem.[5]

Preservationism has been defined by Richard Heinberg in his book Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World as distinguishing survivalist groups who wish merely to survive a collapse of civilization from preservationist communities who wish to preserve as much of human culture as is possible in the event of collapse.

* Clarification: The idea of preservationist communities is part of a broader strategy in which individuals achieve independence from the centralized power grid, forming sustainable communities that could provide mutual support in the event of critical depletion of non-renewable resources.[6]

## Notable historic preservationists

Some of the notable historic preservationists who are or have been advocates for the protection of the built environment include:

* Michael Henry Adams (American, Harlem historian, writer, activist)
* Simeon Bankoff (American preservationist and activist)
* Ann Pamela Cunningham (1816–1875) American pioneering activist)
* Katharine Seymour Day (1870–1964) American preservationist from Hartford, Connecticut
* Fred Dibnah (English Steeplejack, Mechanical Engineer and Preservation activist)
* James Marston Fitch (1909–2000) American architect, teacher, activist)
* Margot Gayle (1908–2008) American journalist, activist)
* Jane Jacobs (1916–2006) American-Canadian writer, activist)
* Carolyn Kent (1935–2009) American, Upper Manhattan activist)
* Charles, Prince of Wales (British activist)
* Sergio Rossetti Morosini (1953– ) Brazilian-American preservationist and activist)
* Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1924–1994) American activist, writer)
* W. Brown Morton III (American governmental and international historian, writer, activist)
* William J. Murtagh (American governmental historian, writer)
* Lee H. Nelson (1927–1994) American governmental administrator, writer, teacher)
* Charles E. Peterson (1906–2004) American seminal activist)
* Jan Hird Pokorný (1914–May 2008) Czech-born American architect, New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
* Halina Rosenthal (1918–1991) American activist, Upper East Side of Manhattan)
* George Sheldon (1818–1916) American Senator, farmer, writer)
* Arlene Simon (American activist, Upper West Side of Manhattan)
* Don and Jeannett Slesnick (1943-2023) American preservation advocates and elected officials)
* John Ruskin (1819/20–1900) British art critic, watercolorist, social thinker, philanthropist)
* Eugène Viollet-le-Duc (1814–1879) French architect, theorist)
* Walter Muir Whitehill (1908–2008) American author, historian)
* Les Beilinson AIA (1946–2013) American architect, preservationist, South Beach Miami)
* L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974) English writer, Biographer, Preservationist)
* Nancy (Boyd) Willey (1902–1998) Historic preservationist and environmental activist, saved Little Northwest creek and Barcelona Neck from development.

## Notable conservationists

* See List of conservationists

## Notable environmentalists

* See List of environmentalists

## See also

* Historic preservation
* Historic preservation in New York
* Language preservation
* Conservationist
* Environmentalist
* Environmentalism

## References

1. ↑ Maryland Association of Historic District Commissions, Handbook (1997).
2. ↑ "Language Preservation: UNESCO-CI". http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=11171&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html.
3. ↑ "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". http://www.ethnologue.com/.
4. ↑ Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.
5. ↑ W.N. Sparhawk, "The History of Forestry in America" in Trees: Yearbook of Agriculture, 1949. Washington, D.C.
6. ↑ Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (ISBN 9780865715103) (2004; British edition 2005)

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Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage

Collection care
and management|

* Collecting
* Collection (artwork)
* Collections care
* Collection catalog
* Collections maintenance
* Collections management (museum)
* Collection Management Policy
* Collections management system
* Cultural heritage management
* Cultural resources management
* Deaccessioning (museum)
* Digital repository audit method based on risk assessment
* Display case
* Documentation of cultural property
* Emergency response (museum)
* Exhibition of cultural heritage objects
* Found in collection
* Inherent vice
* Inventory (museum)
* Museum integrated pest management
* Preservation metadata
* Implementation Strategies
* Preservation of meaning
* Preservation survey
* Provenance
* Repatriation
* Restoration (cultural heritage)
* Storage of cultural heritage objects

Roles and
expertise|

* Art handler
* Collection manager
* Conservator-restorer
* Conservation scientist
* Conservation technician
* Curator
* Exhibition designer
* Mount maker
* Objects conservator
* Paintings conservator
* Photograph conservator
* Preservationist
* Registrar (museum)
* Textile conservator

Area specialities|

* Antiques restoration
* Archaeological science
* Archaeology
* Bioarchaeology
* Building restoration
* Conservation science
* Digital photograph restoration
* Digital preservation
* Database preservation
* Film preservation
* Frame conservation
* Heritage science
* Historic preservation
* Media preservation
* Object conservation
* Optical media preservation
* Painting conservation
* Preservation (library and archival science)
* Restoration
* Sustainable preservation
* Web archiving

Techniques|

* Aging (artwork)
* Anastylosis
* Arrested decay
* Architecture
* Cradling (paintings)
* Detachment of wall paintings
* Desmet method
* Historic paint analysis
* Imaging of cultural heritage
* Inpainting
* Kintsugi
* Leafcasting
* Lining of paintings
* Mass deacidification
* Mold control and prevention in libraries
* Overpainting
* Paper splitting
* Radiography of cultural objects
* Reconstruction (architecture)
* Rissverklebung
* Textile stabilization
* Transfer of panel paintings
* UVC-based preservation
* VisualAudio

Topics|

* Archaeological sites
* Ancient Greek pottery
* Automobiles
* Bone, horn, and antler objects
* Books, manuscripts, documents and ephemera
* Ceramic objects
* Clocks
* Copper-based objects
* Feathers
* Film
* Flags and banners
* Frescos
* Fur objects
* Glass objects
* Herbaria
* Historic gardens
* Human remains
* Illuminated manuscripts
* Insect specimens
* Iron and steel objects
* Ivory objects
* Judaica
* Lacquerware
* Leather objects
* Lighthouses
* Metals
* Musical instruments
* Neon objects
* New media art
* Outdoor artworks
* Outdoor bronze objects
* Outdoor murals
* Paintings
* Painting frames
* Panel paintings
* Papyrus
* Parchment
* Performance art
* Photographs
* Photographic plates
* Plastic objects
* Pompeian frescoes
* Shipwreck artifacts
* Silver objects
* South Asian household shrines
* Stained glass
* Taxidermy
* Textiles
* Tibetan thangkas
* Time-based media art
* Totem poles
* Vehicles
* Vinyl discs
* Woodblock prints
* Wooden artifacts
* Wooden furniture

Notable projects|

* Conservation issues of Pompeii and Herculaneum
* Conservation-restoration of Ecce Homo by Elías García Martínez
* Conservation-restoration of The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins
* Conservation-restoration of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper
* Conservation-restoration of the Shroud of Turin
* Conservation-restoration of the Sistine Chapel frescoes
* Conservation-restoration of the Statue of Liberty
* Conservation-restoration of the H.L. Hunley
* Modern and Contemporary Art Research Initiative

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