Conservation & Preservation

A technical examination of artists' workshops and studios across history and media, told through the collections of the National Gallery of Art Volume 6 of the National Gallery of Art's biennial conservation research journal Facture explores the themes...

The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help define our relationship to them. These...

Engagingly written and profusely illustrated, this book offers readers a close-up "view from the scaffolding" of some of the greatest Renaissance wall paintings at the Vatican. Beginning in the late 1400s, the greatest artists of Renaissance Italy were...

1. The author explains how cultural heritage organizations, such as museums, libraries, archives and historic sites, can forgo the "best" in favor of "good" and "better" approaches to collections care. Giving examples of...

Close technical examinations of the techniques and materials of Edward Steichen, Mark Rothko, Jules Olitski, Jasper Johns, and others are accompanied by essays that probe issues of conserving contemporary art Volume 5 of the National Gallery of Art's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941792322Author Peter N. MillerFormat HardbackImprint Bard Graduate CenterPublisher Bard Graduate CenterWeight(grams) 6g

An exploration of heritage practice in Turkey at the intersection of academia, policy, and practice. The papers published in this volume were among those presented at the 14th International ANAMED Annual Symposium (IAAS), held at Istanbul's Koc...

Conservators and other museum professionals face a large number of issues involving the mechanical behavior of materials, including questions on craquelure, restoring physically damaged objects, art in transport, or the selection of adhesives. However,...

Eggshells, flowers, onion peels, sponge cake, dried bread, breast milk-these are just a few of the biological materials that some contemporary artists have used to make art. But how can works made from such perishable ingredients be preserved? And what...

The art and science of audiovisual preservation and access has evolved at breakneck speed in the digital age. The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) is organized by the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations and brings experts from around...

Teaching and learning involve more than just language. The teachers' use of gestures, the classroom spaces they occupy and the movements they make, as well as the tools they use, work together with language as a multimodal ensemble of meanings. Embodied...

Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to...

The Conservator’s Cookbook is a collection of practical, step-by-step guides outlining how to prepare various solutions, adhesives, gels, and other mixtures used in heritage conservation.While most conservators learn the chemical rationale of...

The Conservator’s Cookbook is a collection of practical, step-by-step guides outlining how to prepare various solutions, adhesives, gels, and other mixtures used in heritage conservation.While most conservators learn the chemical rationale of...

This new edition titled Adhesives, Coatings, and Consolidants discusses the chemical, physical, and optical properties that influence the selection of adhesives, coatings and consolidants used in the conservation of cultural heritage objects made from a...

This new edition titled Adhesives, Coatings, and Consolidants discusses the chemical, physical, and optical properties that influence the selection of adhesives, coatings and consolidants used in the conservation of cultural heritage objects made from a...

Experimental Design and Scientific Data Analysis provides accessible information about the research process from start to finish as applied to conservation, to enable readers to successfully plan and carry out research and share findings effectively with...

Experimental Design and Scientific Data Analysis provides accessible information about the research process from start to finish as applied to conservation, to enable readers to successfully plan and carry out research and share findings effectively with...

What do Persian robes of honour, 20th-century still-life painting, fur garments, and 18th-century porcelain all have in common? Prized, possessed and modelled, they highlight the deep connections we share with cultural objects. Establishing new...

An authoritative annual record of scientific research and conservation carried out at the National Gallery, London The National Gallery Technical Bulletin is an annual record of the research carried out at the National Gallery, London. Drawing on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284077Author Arnoud VrolijkFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press

Colour, Colour Measurement and Colour Change, the first new book in the expanded Science for Conservators series, explains the science of colour, colour measurement, and colour change for conservators in a clear and comprehensible way, elucidating the...

Colour, Colour Measurement and Colour Change, the first new book in the expanded Science for Conservators series, explains the science of colour, colour measurement, and colour change for conservators in a clear and comprehensible way, elucidating the...

An unterschiedlichen Erscheinungsformen von Landschaft werden in diesem Band Fragen ihrer Identifizierung, Konstruktion und Ausprägung angesprochen. Dabei kommt Landschaft gleichsam als Archiv medial vermittelter und in sie eingeschriebener Handlungen,...

A critical first step in the conservation of cultural heritage is to identify and understand the places we want to protect. Inventories and related data-collection activities such as surveys are essential tools in this effort, and heritage-related...