Current technical challenges in the conservation of paintings
By: edited by Angelina Barros D'Sa, Lizzie Bone, Rhiannon Clarricoates and Helen Dowding
Publisher: Archetype Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781909492318
Subjects: Painting; Conservation and restoration; Congresses
Other titles: Modern conservation : what's new?
Description: As artists have increasingly utilised modern materials and techniques, it has presented the conservator with a host of new and complex problems that need to be addressed. As such, this is a subject of great interest to conservators, many of whom had expressed an interest in an event that could supplement their existing knowledge in this field. In response to this, the Institute of Conservation's Paintings Group decided that this would be an appropriate theme for a conference that could provide a platform for contributors to disseminate their research on a number of topics relating to the conservation of contemporary artworks. In addition, a call was put out for contributors who might be developing new and innovative techniques and materials to address conservation problems, or who might be utilising well-known materials that are already in the conservator's toolkit in a new capacity. The papers in this volume were presented at the Paintings Group's conference 'Modern Conservation: What's New?' held at The Wallace Collection in London in October 2014. It covered a variety of topics including: consolidants and flake laying; the possible use of sports injury tape as a temporary means of support during structural conservation treatments; rigid inserts to stretchers to reduce vibrations; auxiliary supports for modern paintings; the problem of softening and weeping paints in modern works of art and methods of treatment; wet surface cleaning treatments for contemporary paintings; and ethical considerations when dealing with conceptual artists' wishes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A summary of recent developments in wet surface cleaning systems: unvarnished modern and contemporary painted surfaces / Bronwyn Ormsby, Melinda Keef, Alan Phenix and Thomas Learner; title: Cleaning off liquefying paint / Line Blomsterberg Andersen, Katarina Havermark and Kathrine Segel; title: In search of a solution for softening and weeping paints in contemporary paintings by Tal R and Frank van Hemert / Ida Bronken, Jaap Boon and Anna Vila; title: Lascaux acrylic dispersion 498HV and Medium of Consolidation 4176 used as consolidants in two very different practical case studies / Jim Dimond; title: Laropal A81 as an alternative to MS2A and other resins / Sophie Reddington; title: Kinesio tape: conservation science meets sports medicine / Anna Krez; title: Vibration management for canvas paintings: a review of rigid stretcher insert systems, their materials and applications / Laura Hinde; title: Conservation; title: artistic transgressions: ethical issues related to conservators' participation within artistic actions questioning or redefining objects' integrity / Mirosław Wachowiak and Sławomir A. Kamiński; title: Conservation issues related to the use of auxiliary supports in the treatment of modern paintings with untypical technical structures; title: as in works from the series Hors cadre by Aleksander Kobzdej / Sławomir A. Kamiński and Mirosław Wachowiak; title: Using a categorisation framework to simplify a complex approach to the conservation of modern art / Eunjin Kim and Taeeun Kim.