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American Artists' Materials, Vol 2 -
Guide to Stretchers, Panels, Millboards and Stencil Marks -- Comprehensive research on all U.S. stretcher patents, 1849-1949. Plus all support materials thoroughly examined with hundreds of illustrations. (564 pages Cloth 1992)
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Art Conservation and Authenticities -
To identify exactly what constitutes an artwork's 'authentic' state can be problematic and challenging; maintaining or displaying it as such even more so. 'Authenticity' is one of the most influential factors that determine a course of action for a work of art in need of conservation. It is also one...
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Art on Paper: Mounting and Housing -
This book to be published May 2005 in association with the British Museum contains papers on mounting and housing presented at the two-day international conference Mounting and Housing, Art on Paper for storage and display, history, science and present-day practice.(19th /20th May 2005)
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Big Pictures: Problems and Solutions for Treating Outsize Paintings -
This publication documents situations faced by both conservators and curators when working with paintings ranging in scale from unusually large portraits to panoramas.
Solutions for the problems presented by pictures too large for lorries, unable to fit through windows and doors and beyond the d...
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Caring for American Indian Objects: A Practical and Cultural Guide -
This book offers invaluable information and advice to anyone who wants to preserve American Indian cultural objects.
Twenty-one contributors discuss general aspects of museum care, explain techniques for particular materials, and address important cultural considerations. From methods of storage...
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Conservation and Care of Glass Objects -
This book is designed to aid conservators in understanding the materials used in the conservation and restoration of glass objects. Principles and methods involved in the cleaning and restoration of historical and archaeological glass objects are addressed,including aspects of deterioration, the eth...
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Conservation of the Decorative Arts -
This series appeared in MUSEUM NEWS during 1976-1977. The authors are members of the conservation staff at the Henry Francis du Winterthur Museum. Covers topics on Textiles, Ceramics and Glass, Wood and Metals Conservation.
Copyright 1976 and 1977, American Association of Museums, Washington ...
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Disaster Recovery of Modern Information Carriers: Compact Discs, Magnetic Tapes, and Magnetic Disks -
Summarizes procedures for disaster recovery following immersion in water. Procedures also include dealing with media that have deposits on them or have been exposed to heat, dirt, mould, & shock. Procedures are a compilation of information from the few case histories published, recommendations made ...
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Essentials in the Care and Conservation of Historical Ceramic Objects -
Ceramic objects form a substantial part of museum collections world-wide. The survival of so many ceramic objects might suggest that they are relatively durable and do not demand the same level of care and conservation compared with other types of material. However, inappropriate environments, carel...
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Guidelines for pH Measurement in Conservation -
This Technical Bulletin discusses the principles behind reliable and reproducible pH measurements, points out common pitfalls, & suggests ways to determine the pH of many materials found in museum objects. Descriptions of general measurement procedures are included, along with a comparison of vario...
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Issues in the Conservation of Photographs -
Issues in the Conservation of Photographs is the first publication to chronicle the emergence and systematic development of photograph conservation as a profession. In seventy-two essential texts from the nineteenth century to the present day, this anthology collects key writings that have influence...
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Italian Renaissance Drawings: Technical Examination and Analysis -
Ed. Ambers, Higgitt and Saunders
The drawings discussed in this book, published in association with the British Museum, were included in the exhibition, Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings, held at the British Museum, London and the Uffizi Gallery, Florence in 2010-2011. Te...
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Moving Collections: Processes and Consequences -
Moving Collections: Processes and Consequences is the result of an initiative from the Norwegian section of the Nordic Conservators Association (NKF-N) which organised a conference entitled 'Planning to move? Processes and consequences for collections, objects and society' in Oslo. The articles in t...
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Plastics: Looking at the Future and Learning from the Past -
This volume of postprints of a conference held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, is intended as a ‘marker in the sand’, a record of current perceptions and considerations of plastics within museum collections.
Artists' concepts of plastic as a medium, and their views of aging and decay, challeng...
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Protein Facts -
Fibrous proteins in cultural and natural history artifacts.
This book is designed to help collections managers, conservators, curators, collectors and students (of materials and material culture) to understand the properties of the materials (containing protein fibers) from which various objects ...
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Repairing Pottery and Porcelain 2nd Ed -
This excellent resource on pottery and porcelain restoration is now it its 2nd Edition.
This fully-illustrated step-by-step guide clearly takes the reader through each stage of restoration, tackling the simple, the difficult, and the extremely impossible jobs by providing practical informati...
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The Stability of Photocopied and Last-printed Documents and Images: General Guidelines -
Reviews the technology of photocopiers & laser printers, & discusses the stability & preservation of copies. A full-sheet test for assessing the adhesion of toner to paper is described, & the results of testing papers according to the American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM) standard for perm...
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Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art -
The papers in this volume, from the Hildesheim symposium, Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art: Reflections on the Roots and the Perspectives, confront the theoretical foundation and the ethical and aesthetical principles of the conservation of modern and contempora...
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