Title: Past practice - future prospects /
Authors: Oddy, W. A.; Smith, Sandra.; British Museum.
Date: 2001
Publisher: British Museum,
Physical description: viii, 210 p. : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: Dr. E. Clive Rouse MBE FSA and his contribution to English wall-painting conservation / Ann Ballntyne -- To get rid of the crust or not / Régis Bertholon -- Technical research and the care of works of art at the Fogg Art Museum, 1900 to 1950 / Francesca G. Bewer -- Environmental conditions in relation to easel-painting conservation in the second half of the 19th century at the National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum, London / Hero Boothroyd Brooks -- Elof Risebye / Isabelle Brajer -- Conservation of waterlogged wood / Helge Brinch Madsen, Ion Meyer and Tove B. Jakobsen -- The Ministry and conservation / Barbara Bryant -- Roman mosaic conservation in Portugal / Antonio Cardoso -- Searching for evidence of 19th-century print restoration / Bryan Clarke -- The future of ethnographic conservation / Miriam Clavir -- Necessity introduced these arts / Elizabeth Darrow -- The more cheese the stronger it is / Robert M. Entwistle -- The definition of the conservation profession and its field of operation / Beate Federspiel -- Ruin or replacement? / Malcolm F. Fry and Alan H. Martin -- The rise of conservation science in archaeology, 1830-1930 / Mark Gilbert and Dan Vivian -- Conservation of iron artefacts in Norway with an emphasis on the boiling method used in Christiania, 1870-1884 / John Hansen -- New skills new influence / Jane Henderson -- Hell vs. Ruhemann, the metaphysical and the physical / Joyce Hill Stoner. Aesthetic unity or conservation honesty? / Cathleen Sara Hoeniger -- Stephen Pichetto and conservation in America / Ann Hoenigswald with Renée Lorion and Elizabeth Walmsley -- Conservation and restoration at the Museum of Nordic Antiquities in Copenhagen, 1807-32 / Tove B. Jakobsen and Helge Brinch Madsen -- The "boy-learner" and the "quiet American" / Rosemarie Johnson -- How Dutch is "the Dutch method"? / Mireille te Marvelde -- Research into the history of photograph conservation / Pau Maynés and Grant B. Romer -- "It is surprising that things can be preserved as well as they are" / Mark Norman -- The three wise men and the 60:60 rule / Andrew Oddy -- Caring for human remains / Elizabeth Pye -- William J. Barrow and the history of conservation in the United States / Sally Cruz Roggia -- Sir William Flinders Petrie / Catherine Sease -- Patriotism in fabric and stitches / Deborah Lee Trupin -- Timeless problems / Sarah C. Watkins and Ruth Scott -- The pre-history of the Restoration Centre in Düsseldorf / Cornelia Weyer.
Notes: Proceedings of a conference held at the British Museum in 2001.
Subject headings (LCSH): Antiquities--Collection and preservation--History--Congresses.; Art objects--Conservation and restoration--Congresses.; British Museum--Congresses.; Conservatorships--Art--Congresses.; Museum conservation methods--Congresses.; Museum conservation methods--History--Congresses.