| Description |
1 online resource (949 p.) |
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Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology Ser |
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Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Part I Technical art history, examination, documentation, and scientific analysis -- 1 Art technological source research : Documentary sources on European painting to the twentieth century, with Appendices I-VII -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Interpretation -- 1.3 Technical terminology -- 1.4 Text vs practice -- 1.5 History of art technological source research |
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Documentary sources relating to the practice of painting in Europe, to ca. 1550 (see also Appendix I) -- 1.6 Introduction: Europe to ca. 1550 -- 1.7 Treatises and recipe collections -- 1.8 Financial and legal documents -- 1.9 The origins of medieval technical treatises -- 1.10 Conclusions: Europe to ca. 1550 -- Art technological documents from the Renaissance to ca. 1900, an overview -- 1.11 Introduction: new ways of thinking and dissemination -- 1.12 Formation of the first academies and new literature on painting -- 1.13 Italian treatises post-Vasari (see Appendix II) |
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1.14 French treatises (see Appendix III) -- 1.15 Spanish sources (see Appendix IV) -- 1.16 Northern Europe (see Appendix V) -- 1.17 England (see Appendix VI) -- 1.18 Case study: Types of nineteenth-century documentary sources for painting illustrated through the example of Britain -- Introduction -- 1.18.1 England: Handbooks and reference manuals, compendia of the arts -- 1.18.2 Instruction manuals -- 1.19 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendices: Art technological resource listings -- General and reference works -- Appendix I: European sources to ca. 1550 -- A1.1 Well-known major texts |
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A1.2 Other texts -- A1.3 Texts less well known but deserving of more attention -- A1.4 Legal and financial documents -- A1.4.1 Guilds -- A1.4.2 Contracts -- A1.4.3 Accounts -- A1.4.4 Further reading: collections and bibliographies -- Appendix II: Italian treatises -- Appendix III: French treatises to 1900 -- Appendix IV: Spanish treatises -- Appendix V: Sources from 1550 until the nineteenth-century Northern European texts -- Primary sources -- Appendix VI: British treatises on oil painting -- Appendix VII: Sample colourmen's archives in the UK |
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2 Exploring the grammar of oil paint through the use of historically accurate reconstructions -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Labelling -- 2.3 Understanding the working qualities of historical materials -- 2.4 Paint sample cross-sections -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Collecting and archiving information from living artists for the conservation of contemporary art -- 3.1 Introduction and controversies -- 3.2 'Crimes against the Cubists' -- 3.3 Barnett Newman's surfaces and their impact on the viewer -- 3.4 Unique and idiosyncratic materials and meaning in contemporary art -- 3.5 Documenting artistic intent |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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3.5.1 Early initiatives on communication with artists and conservators |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rushfield, Rebecca
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| ISBN |
9780429680960 |
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0429680961 |
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