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Item Number: 135589
Title: Current Technical Challenges in the Conservation of Paintings
Author: Barros D'Sa, Angelina (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781909492318
Description: London: Archetype, 2015. 25cm., pbk., 136pp., 47 color, 12 b&w illus.

Contents: A summary of recent developments in wet surface cleaning systems: unvarnished modern and contemporary painted surfaces ; Cleaning off liquefying paint ; In search of a solution for softening and weeping paints in contemporary paintings by Tal R and Frank van Hemert ; Lascaux acrylic dispersion 498HV and Medium for Consolidation 4176 used as consolidants in two very different practical case studies ; Laropal A81 as an alternative to MS2A and other resins ; Kinesio tape: conservation science meets sports medicine ; Vibration management for canvas paintings: a review of rigid stretcher insert systems,their materials and applications ; Conservation – artistic transgressions. Ethical issues related to conservators’ participation within artistic actions questioning or redefining objects’ integrity ; Conservation issues related to the use of auxiliary supports in the treatment of modern paintings with untypical technical structures – as in works from the series Hors cadre by Aleksander Kobzdej ; Using a categorisation framework to simplify a complex approach to the conservation of modern art.

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