David Lowenthal receives Forbes Prize

David Lowenthal, professor emeritus, Department of Geography,
University College London, has been awarded the biennial Forbes
Prize for conspicuous services to conservation by the International
Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, its
highest honour. Professor Lowenthal is the twenty-first recipient of
the Prize.

The presentation of the Forbes Prize to Professor Lowenthal reflects
his half-century of influential lectures and publications on the
significance and problems of conservation, his pioneering
contributions to defining conservation goals, and his services to
national and international heritage agencies and institutions,
including UNESCO, the International Council on Monuments and Sites,
the International Council of Museums, ICCROM, the Getty Conservation
Institute, the World Monuments Fund, the Council of Europe, Europa
Nostra, English Heritage, the U.S. National Trust for Historic
Preservation, the National Trust of Australia, and the Norwegian
Directorate of Cultural Heritage. Reflecting this year's IIC
Congress theme, Conservation and the Eastern Mediterranean Professor
Lowenthal's Forbes Lecture, 'Mediterranean Omens: Conservation
Nostrums in Mare Nostrum' will link the conservation of art and
history to the care of the wider natural environment, and stress the
needs for long term stewardship of both.

The IIC Congress will take place 20-24 September, 2010, in Istanbul.

Professor Lowenthal is a renowned and prolific author.  His work has
included the seminal book "The Past is A Foreign Country "
(Cambridge University Press) and  a topics concerned with landscape
tastes and perceptions, as well as the relationship between history
and cultural heritage. His studies have embraced North America, the
West Indies and Britain. He is a specialist on the 19th century
North American philologist, geographer and environmentalist George
Perkins Marsh, whose work laid the foundations of the environmental
conservation movement in the United States. Professor Lowenthal
earned his PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin after
receiving an M.A. in geography from the University of California,
Berkeley in 1950, and a B.S. in history from Harvard University in
1944. The Forbes Prize was established in 1958 in memory of Edward
Waldo Forbes, director of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. In the 1920s,
EW Forbes established the first scientific conservation laboratory
in the United States for the care and conservation of works of art.

More information on the IIC may be found at

    <URL:http://www.iiconservation.org/congress>

Graham Voce
Executive Secretary
International Institute for Conservation
of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC)
6 Buckingham Street
London WC2N 6BA
UK
+44 20 7839 5975
Fax: +44 20 7976 1564


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