Introduction. Conservation as performance / Alexander Nagel
Making-Remaking. Chapter 1. Copy | Repeat : conserving South Asian painting through practice / Murad Khan Mumtaz ; Chapter 2. The overpaint-ability of Madonnas in 1300s Siena / Annika Svendsen Finne ; Chapter 3. Japanese painting : mounting, mediation, transmission, renewal / Yukio Lippit ; Chapter 4. Conservation practice and the appearance of Japanese paintings / Iwatarō Oka
Enacting-Teaching. Chapter 5. Conserving ourselves / creating ourselves / Alva Noë ; Chapter 6. Conservation and the technique of art history / Sven Dupré
Materials surfacing. Chapter 7. The Bettmann Morgue : cold storage, digitization, and archives of racial violence / Brian Michael Murphy ; Chapter 8. Minimum worlds : material poetics between time, details, and fragments / Gabriela Siracusano
Institutions working. Chapter 9. The arts of the same / Fernando Domínquez Rubio ; Chapter 10. Art history and the condition report / Caroline Fowler ; Chapter 11. But who decided? On the epistemes and politics of photographic decay / Jennifer Bajorek
Nation forming. Chapter 12. Can conservation be decentered? / Noémie Étienne ; Chapter 13. Conserving monuments, reviving temples : communities, monuments, and politics in South India / Kavita Singh.
