Making and Transforming Art: Technology and Interpretation

ISBN 10: 1909492167 / ISBN 13: 9781909492165

Published by Archetype Books, 2015

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Title:
Making and Transforming Art: Technology and Interpretation

Description:
Brussels: IRPA/KIK (Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage), 2012. First edition paperback, 320 pp., quarto, extensively illustrated in colour and b&w. Conference proceedings from the 2011 Art & Technology symposium, presenting cutting-edge technical studies on artists' materials, techniques, and scientific analysis?from Old Master grounds and pigments to modern conservation challenges. Multi-author contributions from leading European conservators and art technologists. ISBN 9789492079017.

Condition:
Very good. Clean tight copy with minimal shelfwear to wrappers, no ownership marks, plates sharp. Specialist reference for technical art history.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making and Transforming Art: Technology and Interpretation
• Publisher: Archetype Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909492167
• ISBN 13: 9781909492165
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 0.91W x 20.9H x 29.85D centimeters 0.91 centimeters width by 20.9 centimeters height by 29.85 centimeters depth
• Weight: 590 grams

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Synopsis

The papers in this volume, presented at the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels in November 2012, cover a wide range of works of art, periods, sources and approaches, from Dioscorides to contemporary artists' installations. The theme of the conference is reflected in studies such as Tingely's explosive Homage to New York, the evolutions and transformations of harpsichords in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the art of wax anatomical models in Spain, or neo-gothic polychromies. The confrontation of source research with experimental reconstruction and analysis are illustrated in the study of anthocyanin colorants in Medieval European illuminators workshop or of tempera paint around 1900. Research on artist's materials, such as vermillion, zinc white or turpentine, refers to patents, inventories, diaries and chronicles. The interpretation and transmission of sources is central to several papers. Innovative databases on Art Technological Sources are also presented.