Conservation & Preservation

The book delves into the realpolitik(s) of conservation endeavours in complex urban settings. It highlights discrepancies between formal policies and pragmatic realities, revealing the factors contributing to this divide. Drawing on cases from Iran,...

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...

Since the fourth millennium BCE, bronze has been the preferred medium for some of the most prestigious and sacred works of art. But only through interdisciplinary research can the fabrication of these extraordinary objects be properly investigated,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909492912Author Jakub DoubalFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications Ltd

In recent years, funding for the conservation of cultural heritage has become increasingly difficult to obtain, and this trend shows no sign of changing significantly in the foreseeable future. The twelfth triennial meeting of the International Committee...

Light allows us not only to see the works of art, but also to take care of them and preserve them for future generations, through diagnosis of the degradation and deterioration phenomena, conservation treatments, and monitoring based on light-material...

This new edition of An Introduction to Materials and Chemistry, the first in the updated Science for Conservators series, provides conservators and conservators-in-training with a very basic introduction to the language of chemistry and to the scientific...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909492851Author Pamela MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909492752Author Adele WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams) 690g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909492745Author Mary KempskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications Ltd

Among the most radical of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters, Clyfford Still has also long been among the least studied. Still severed ties with the commercial art world in the early 1950s, and his estate at the time of his death in 1980...

"My husband Jan finished me on 17 June 1439. . . . My age was 33 years." So speaks Margaret van Eyck from the frame of her portrait. This painted inscription honors its maker Jan van Eyck, even as it blurs the distinction between living subject and...

Apocalypse reproduces the Apocalypse Cycle of the Great East Window of York Minster in its entirety and in full colour for the very first time. Stunning photography presents each panel in detail, accompanied by expert commentary. The book is both a...

This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and writing about them-the practices that became art conservation and art history-share a common...

The first comprehensive interdisciplinary account of Michelangelo's work as a sculptor in bronze. This book is the outcome of extensive original research undertaken over several years by academics at the University of Cambridge together with a team of...

This title offers an insightful collection of critically important readings on the concepts and practices of textile conservation. This fourth volume in "The Readings in Conservation series" aims to promote critical thinking about the concepts and...

The Museum Environment is in two parts; Part I: intended for conservators and museum curators and describes the principles and techniques of controlling the environment so that the potentially damaging effects of light, humidity and air pollution on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909492707Author Salvador Munoz VinasFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783740673Author Constantine SandisFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams)...

A global reconsideration and broadening of the definition of art conservation through the lenses of theory, ethics, culture, and history Thought-provoking and timely, this volume challenges inherited thinking on art conservation practice and purposefully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904982111Author Robert GowingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

Innovative Technology in Art Conservation provides one of the first ever critical assessments of innovation in conservation science and questions what role it should play in conservation and conservation ethics.Written in language understandable for the...

Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had...

Vibrant colour was essential to the paintings of the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), and when he began exploring outdoor sculpture in the late 1970s, vivid hues-often achieved through the use of recently developed industrial paints and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904982852Author Lucy WrapsonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

This book features a masterwork in the field of conservation published in English for the first time. In the decades since its initial publication in German in 1978, Polychrome Sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the making...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599951508Author Robert M EdselFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Center StreetPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds...

This richly illustrated book has been produced to highlight the plight of some of our most popular, yet endangered wild creatures. The lack of dedicated spaces, combined with polluted waterways, contaminated soil and receding hedgerows, points to a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953534897Author Allen CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 257mm * 224mm...

Humans have faced urgent crises over the past two years, and in the midst of those we still have the threat of climate change and other big, systemic problems facing our world. In this time of chaos and crisis, how do activists find the strength to carry...

In 2019 Yale University, with the support of the Getty Foundation, held an international conference, where nearly four hundred attendees from more than twenty countries gathered to discuss a vital topic: how best to conserve paintings on canvas. It was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781873132371Author Gustav A. BergerFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904982784Author Erma HermensFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications LtdWeight(grams)...

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...

This is a detailed and informative overview of the latest research and development in stone conservation. Petra, Angkor, Copan, Venice, Lascaux, Easter Island - all are examples of irreplaceable cultural heritage built in stone and now slowly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909492509Author Lora AngelovaFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Archetype Publications LtdPublisher Archetype Publications Ltd

This title is an insightful collection of essays and reports examining key issues in the conservation and management of archaeological sites. The fifth volume in the Getty's "Readings in Conservation" series features more than seventy texts that have...

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