Theory and History of Conservation
Alberro, Alexander & Stimson, Blake (eds.), Institutional Critique. An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Cambridge Mass., London 2009
Dillon, Brian (ed.), Ruins, London, Cambridge Mass. 2011
Eggert, Paul, Securing the Past. Conservation in Art, Architecture, and Literature, Cambridge 2009
O'Doherty, Brian, Inside the White Cube. The Ideology of the Gallery Space (1976), San Francisco 1986
Tate Papers, Autumn 2007 (Stephen Hackney, "Degradation of Naum Gabo's Plastic Sculpture"; Jackie Heuman & Lyndsey Morgan, "Tate Sculpture Replica Project"; Nina and Graham Williams, "A Statement by the Copyright Holders"), available online.
Thompson, Michael, Rubbish Theory. The Creation and Destruction of Value, Oxford 1979, 1-12