Conservation of Modern Oil Paintings (1st ed. 2019)

Synopsis

Artists’ oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of issues that pose increasing difficulties to conservators and collection keepers. A deeper knowledge of the artists’ intent as well as processes associated with material changes in paintings is important to conservation, which is almost always a compromise between material preservation and aesthetics. This volume represents 46 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Conference of Modern Oil Paints held in Amsterdam in 2018. The book contains a compilation of articles on oil paints and paintings in the 20th Century, partly presenting the outcome of the European JPI project ‘Cleaning of Modern Oil Paints’. It is also a follow-up on ‘Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint’ (Springer, 2014). The chapters cover a range of themes and topics such as: patents and paint manufacturing in the 20th Century; characterization of modern-contemporary oil paints and paint surfaces; artists’ materials and techniques; the artists’ voice and influence on perception of curators, conservators and scientists; model studies on paint degradation and long term stability; approaches to conservation of oil paintings; practical surface treatment and display. The book will help conservators and curators recognise problems and interpret visual changes on paintings, which in turn give a more solid basis for decisions on the treatment of these paintings.

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030192549

Related ISBNs:

9783030192532

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

05/26/20

Copyrighted By:

Springer

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Science, Technology, Social Studies

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Klaas Jan van den Berg

Edited by:

Ilaria Bonaduce

Edited by:

Aviva Burnstock

Edited by:

Bronwyn Ormsby

Edited by:

Mikkel Scharff

Edited by:

Leslie Carlyle

Edited by:

Gunnar Heydenreich

Edited by:

Katrien Keune