Sources and serendipity
Subtitle: testimonies of artists' practice
By: editors, Erma Hermens and Joyce H. Townsend
Contributors: Hermens, Erma, 1958-; Townsend, Joyce; Art Technological Source Research (Study group)
Publisher: Archetype
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781904982524
Subjects: Art; Technique; Congresses; Art and technology
Other titles: Testimonies of artists' practice
Notes: "Proceedings of the third symposium of the Art Technological Source Research Working Group."

Selected conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Virtues and vices in late medieval art productions: the painter's progress to hell  -- Manfred Lautenschlager; title: Codicological indicators of practical medieval artists' recipes  -- Mark Clarke; title: Impossible recipes  -- Spike Bucklow; title: Romanian handbooks on manuscript illumination in the 18th century  -- Marta Ursescu and Sorin Ciovica; title: Art for war : washing materials and techniques in Spanish military mapmaking  -- Stefanos Kroustallis; title: Copper pigments in medieval times : green, blue, greenish-blue or bluish-green?  -- Catarina Miguel, Ana Claro, João A. Lopes and Maria João Melo; title: Documentary sources for the use of moulds in the production of tin relief : cause and effect  -- Jilleen Nadolny; title: Writing recipes for non-specialists c.1300 : the Anglo-Latin Secretum philosophorum, Glasgow MS Hunterian 110  -- Mark Clarke; title: Comparative analysis of painting recipes : a new contribution to the study of the texts of the Strasbourg family  -- Sylvie Neven; title: Images of copper engravers and plate printers in their workshops 1545-1645 : 'One picture tells more than a thousand words' -- Ad Stijnman; title: Fine art materials in Vigani's cabinet (1704) at Queens' College, Cambridge  -- Lisa Wagner; title: The master's own hand? Contribution to the study of Rubens' retouching of monumental formats  -- Hélène Dubios; title: Oudry's painted menagerie: a technical study with reference to the artist's lectures on painting technique  -- Alan Phenix, Tiarna Doherty, Anna Schönemann and Adriana Rizzo; title: Studying the artistic process : Kupelwieser's fresco series History of Austria  -- Sigrid Eyb-Green, Wolfgang Baatz and Werner Kitlitschka; title: En plein soleil : Whistler, nature and memory  -- Erma Hermens and Margaret F. MacDonald; title: 'To acquire a good name' : specimens of 19th-century Persian tile-making from the Tehran workshop of the master potter Ali Muhammad Isfahani  -- Lore Troalen, Ina Reiche, Stefan Röhrs, Boris Pretzel, Lucia Burgio, Bhavesh Shah, Stéphane Peschard, Clotilde Boust, Jim Tate, Graham Martin and Friederike Voigt; title: Á la recherche du pigment perdu : a project on less well-known 19th-century pigments  -- Hartmut Kutzke and Doris Oltrogge; title: Technique and process in the papers of David Smith  -- Richard Mullholland; title: Challenging the material : the artist's interview as a documentary source in the 1980s and 1990s  -- Paivi Kyllonen-Kunnas; title: Study of materials and techniques used in a 15th-century Romanian illuminated manuscript -- Ileana Zizi Balta, Gheorghe Niculescu, Irina Petroviciu, Bruno Brunetti, Laura Cartechini, Francesca Rosi, Brenda Doherty, Alessandro Sassolini, Mihai Lupu and Ileana Cretu; title: Tracing the history of wall paintings through visual documents : the vault painting of the main hall at Verdala Palace, Malta  -- Theodora Fardi, Roberta De Angelis, Bernadine Scicluna and Daniel Vella; title: Study of a Portuguese 18th-century manuscript  -- Ana Freitas, Ana Claro, Maria João Melo, Conceição Casanova and Laura Moura; title: De/re-constructing Turner for research projects at Tate  -- Joyce H. Townsend, Jacob Thomas, Charlotte Caspers, Monserrat Pis Marcos, Anna Brookes, Bronwyn Ormsby, Stephen Hackney and Andrew Lerwill; title: The archives of Blockx, an Antwerp family of chemist-colourmen, founded 1865 -- Brian Dudley Barrett.