National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 42
ISBN: PB: 9781857096781,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
September 2024
112 pp., 29,9x21,0 cm, 200 colour illus.
112 pp., 29,9x21,0 cm, 200 colour illus.
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...
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Looking at Fashion
A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques
ISBN: PB: 9781606068991,
Getty Publications,
August 2024
144 pp., 23,2x15,8 cm, 94 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
144 pp., 23,2x15,8 cm, 94 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
What is an epaulette? What is a keffiyeh? These clothing items – and hundreds more – are entertainingly explained and vividly illustrated in this accessible guide.
Whether in art or life, fashion makes a statement. It gives form to the temper of the...
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Inventories and Surveys for Heritage Management
Lessons for the Digital Age
ISBN: PB: 9781606068816,
Getty Publications,
July 2024
180 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 65 colour illus.
180 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 65 colour illus.
This is the first step-by-step guide to the design, implementation, and maintenance of heritage inventories and surveys.
A critical first step in the conservation of cultural heritage is to identify and understand the places we want to protect. Inve...
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Guidelines for the Technical Examination of Bronze Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9781606066904,
Getty Publications,
June 2024
518 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 468 colour illus., 80 charts, 15 diagrams
518 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 468 colour illus., 80 charts, 15 diagrams
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, i...
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Conserving Canvas
ISBN: PB: 9781606068243,
Getty Publications,
October 2023
640 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 373 colour illus.
640 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 373 colour illus.
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 w...
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£80.00
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Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History
Volume 6: Workshops and Studios
ISBN: PB: 9780300273366,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
208 pp., 27,9x20,3 cm, 163 colour illus.
208 pp., 27,9x20,3 cm, 163 colour illus.
Volume 6 of the National Gallery of Art's biennial conservation research journal Facture explores the themes of workshops and studios in different cultural contexts and various media. Topics examined include serialization in the Della Robbia workshop...
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Roy Lichtenstein
Outdoor Painted Sculpture
ISBN: PB: 9781606066690,
Getty Publications,
May 2023
168 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 139 colour illus., 10 black&white illus., 13 tables
168 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 139 colour illus., 10 black&white illus., 13 tables
The first book-length study to examine the materials and techniques used in the fabrication and painting of the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein's outdoor sculpture.
Vibrant color was essential to the paintings of the American pop artist Roy Li...
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£35.00
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Expanded Field of Conservation
ISBN: PB: 9780300266948,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
320 pp., 24,1x17,7 cm, 90 colour illus.
320 pp., 24,1x17,7 cm, 90 colour illus.
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 purpos...
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Properties of Plastics
A Guide for Conservators
ISBN: PB: 9781606066935,
Getty Publications,
August 2022
360 pp., 23,5x19,0 cm
360 pp., 23,5x19,0 cm
Almost every museum in the world is confronted with plastics in their collections. Research initiatives and knowledge concerning the conservation of heritage objects made of plastics have proliferated over the last twenty-five years, necessitating th...
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Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art
An International Conference Held in Mexico City, June 3-5, 2019
ISBN: HB: 9781606066874,
Getty Publications,
May 2022
362 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 267 colour illus., 4 tables
362 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 267 colour illus., 4 tables
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 wh...
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