Darning the Wear of Time

Darning the Wear of Time

Author: Miranda Howard

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780810837508

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Visual resources librarian Haddock (Western Michigan U.) substantially annotates the 444 articles she has identified as offering information on how archaeologists, curators, and others minimize the marks of time of clothing. She also presents the findings of her survey of the literature for such features as subjects and reading audience. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

The Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings

Author: Kathleen Dardes

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1998-10-29

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 0892363843

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This volume presents the proceedings of an international symposium organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The first conference of its kind in twenty years, the symposium assembled an international group of conservators of painted panels, and gave them the opportunity to discuss their philosophies and share their work methods. Illustrated in color throughout, this volume presents thirty-one papers grouped into four topic areas: Wood Science and Technology, History of Panel-Manufacturing Techniques, History of the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings, and Current Approaches to the Structural Conservation of Panel Paintings.


An Ounce of Prevention

An Ounce of Prevention

Author: Johanna G. Wellheiser

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780810841765

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Fire, flood, earthquake, vandalism, a terrorist attack--the issues of safety measures, emergency response, and disaster recovery have now become an important part of the planning strategies for most organizations. For the information organization, such as a library, archives, or record center, this responsibility has taken on new dimensions with the proliferation of various forms of electronic media. The authors take the approach that disaster recovery planning must touch every department of an organization and that emergency response must be a carefully mapped strategy. This broad-based approach to "integrated disaster planning" explains each phase of disaster planning, with chapters covering prevention planning, protection planning, preparedness planning, response planning, and recovery planning. The authors consider collections, records, facilities, and systems and include a chapter on post-disaster planning as well. The authors also cover federal and local assistance programs and list other sources for financial assistance. Although the main thrust of the book is the protection of documents, human safety in case of disaster is stressed explicitly and implicitly throughout. Indispensible for every information organization.


Collection Care/Sammlungspflege

Collection Care/Sammlungspflege

Author: Gabriela Krist

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien

Published: 2015-05-21

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 3205201353

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Prevention is an attempt to look into the future and have a positive influence on it – therefore it is one of the most important aspects in the area of collection care, the central, current field of applied research in conservation and restoration. With sustainability damage and loss are avoided, dangers averted and research conducted. Collection care is only successful, if the theory is appropriately implemented in museum practice.


Conservation of Wood Artifacts

Conservation of Wood Artifacts

Author: A. Unger

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-09

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 3662063980

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The impetus for this book was the desire to systematically organize the extant literature on the conservation of cultural property made of wood, from its beginnings before the Christian Era to the year 2000. Various published reviews and monographs, including Holzkonservierung (Wood Conserva tion) published by the senior author in 1988, have appeared over the years, especially in English and in German. They have provided exemplary treat merit of individual areas or aspects of wood conservation, but a comprehen sive, up-to-date exposition of historic and current developments has been lacking. The diverse professional fields of the authors, as well as their insights into methods of conservation and restoration of wood artifacts in Europe, North America, and Asia provided a solid basis for the success of this under taking. One of the goals during the examination of the literature was that not only well-known conservators and scientists from countries that are leaders in wood conservation should be represented, but that less well-known, often not as readily accessible contributions should also be included. Only in this manner was it possible to draw a comprehensive picture of the national and international state of wood conservation. The Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts (AATA) of the Getty Institute were very helpful in our efforts to evaluate as many publications as possible.


Dosso Dossi

Dosso Dossi

Author: Peter Humfrey

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0870998757

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Dosso's rich color schemes are akin to those of his fellow North Italian Titian; he learned something about innovative composition from Raphael and about the force of the body from Michelangelo. But his paintings have a very individual appeal. In leafy natural surroundings containing an array of animals and heavenly bodies, events unfold that are often enigmatic, enacted by characters whose interrelationships elude definition.


Durer to Veronese

Durer to Veronese

Author: Jill Dunkerton

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2002-01-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 0300095333

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"The authors look closely at a variety of types of painting - including large altarpieces, small domestic, devotional images, diplomatic gifts, furniture, decorations and both intimate and full-length portraits - as well as frescoes, drawings and prints. They provide insights into the meanings of individual pictures and into the purposes they were originally intended to serve, and they explore the social position of the artist in the 1500s.


Historical Perspectives on Preventive Conservation

Historical Perspectives on Preventive Conservation

Author: Sarah Staniforth

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1606061429

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"[The present volume] provides a selection from more than sixty-five texts tracing the development of this important area of conservation. The texts range chronologically from antiquity to the present day. They cover a wide range of subjects, including philosophies of preventive conservation, early traditions of housekeeping, the museum environment, relative humidity and temperature, pollution, biodeterioration, and light. There is also a generous selection of readings discussing future trends"--P. [4] of cover.