Chapter 5 : Heritage and Tourism
5.1 IMPORTANCE OF CONSERVATION OF HERITAGE
Conservation of art work in the form of sculptures (stone, metal, wood) metals and their alloys, paintings, manuscripts, textiles, bone-ivory artifacts, monuments and heritage buildings is one of most important and challenging tasks of modern times. The fast pace of industrialization and unplanned growth has created avoidable problems to the architects, civil engineers, conservation scientists and restorers.
Deterioration of artifacts material is a spontaneous phenomenon and sets in as soon as the artistic creation leaves the hands of a stone carver, metal caster, painter, etc. The agencies of decay and destruction are all pervading and distributed all around in nature, it will not be wrong to say that nature wants the material to undergo degradation so that it can be created again. These cyclic processes of creation and deterioration are continuously occurring in nature. Conservation of heritage of mankind is indeed, a battle against the agencies destruction and decay. Conservation is a serious work and should be undertaken by trained conservators with a full understanding of material, alteration processes, stabilization of artifacts with respect to their immediate environment.
Material of an object cannot be changed because of its irreplaceable nature but the type of environment around the heritage buildings, monuments, museums, archives, art galleries etc. could be controlled by careful planning and management. The axiom: ‘Wrong Conservation is worst than no Conservation’. Hence, the need for a team of trained and experienced conservators, architects, planners, human resource developers, environmentalists etc.
5.2HERITAGE OF AGRA
Agra has a long history, which can be traced back to the neo-lithic period. The rock shelter paintings have been found in village Rasoolpur, Patsal, Madanpur, Jajali and were discovered by Dr Giriraj Kumar of Rock Art society of India
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