East Asian paintings
Subtitle: materials, structures and deterioration mechanisms
By: John Winter
Contributors: Freer Gallery of Art; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher: Archetype Publications; In association with the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781904982319
Subjects: Expertising; Technique; Conservation and restoration; East Asian Painting; Radiography
Description: "This book brings together what is known of the material aspects of the paintings of East Asia (China, Japan and Korea), covering the components used, painting structures, certain aspects of painting techniques, and the mechanisms of deterioration. It concentrates of those works in the mainstream of art history, largely paintings on flexible supports and typically mounted as scrolls. The author bases his account on what is known from the available historical Literature, on research published by colleagues worldwide, and on his own research of over thirty-five yesrs at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Orienting survey; title: Pigments; title: Chinese ink; title: Supports; title: Binders and adhesives; title: Materials and techniques; title: Microstructure of paintings; title: Macrostructure of paintings; title: Molecular deterioration; title: Mechanical deterioration.