Title: Reversibility :
Authors: Oddy, W. A.; Carroll, Sara,; British Museum.; British Museum.
Date: 1999
Publisher: British Museum,
Physical description: viii, 180 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: Does reversibility exist in conservation? / Andrew Oddy -- Drawing the line - reversibility and compromise in the conservation of arms and armour / Robert D. Smith -- Is reversibility an option when conserving industrial collections? / Peter M. Meehan -- Restoration or repair? The dilemma of ancient scientific instrument / Paolo Brenni -- Understanding reversibility in natural science collections / Caroline Buttler -- Back to plastics / Yvonne Shashoua -- Plastic surgery: conservation treatments for flexible polyurethane foams: from face-lift to donating the corpse to science / Thea B. van Oosten -- Volatile binding media - useful tools for conservation / Elisabeth Jägers and Erhard Jägers -- Restoration - a kaleidoscope through history / Hiltrud Schinzel -- Imperfect reversibility in paper conservation / Vincent Daniels -- Questions of reversibility in the conservation of paintings on canvas / Paul Ackroyd and David Bomford -- Aspects of reversibility in transferred wall paintings / Isabelle Brajer -- Materials for wall paintings conservation: change of physicochemical properties, ageing effects, and reversibility / Luigi Dei, Piero Baglioni and Marcello Mauro -- Treatment of previously deacidified paper artifacts / Elissa O'Loughlin and Anne Witty -- Reversibility in the restoration of stone artefacts: real possibilities and objective limits / Annamaria Giusti -- Reversibility: a questionable philosophy / Richard D. Smith -- Access as a factor contributing to compromise in conservation-treatment decisions / Karen L. Pavelka -- Swelling as an indicator of removability / Jane L. Down -- Reversibility - politics and economics / Jonathan Ashley-Smith -- Opacity contrariwise: the reversibility of deteriorated surfaces on vessel glass / Sandra Smith -- Reversibility - myth and mis-use / Leslie Charteris -- The search for an ideal: reversibility in ceramic conservation / Alice Boccia Paterakis -- Reversibility; the thinking behind the word / Robert Barclay -- Reversibility - achievable goal or illusion / Nigel J. Seeley -- Museum changes to first nations objects, and their physical and conceptual reversibility / Miriam Clavir -- How greater knowledge of an object can affect an assessment of the reversibility of previous treatments / Helen Murdina Hughes -- Reversibility: dealing with a ghost / Sergio Palazzi.
Notes: Papers originally presented at a symposium on restoration.
Subject headings (LCSH): Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Congresses; Art--Conservation and restoration--Congresses.; Material culture--Conservation and restoration--Congresses.; Museum conservation methods--Congresses.; Museum conservation methods.