The Conservation of Far Eastern Art: Preprints of the Contributions to the Kyoto Congress, 19-23 September 1988

Front Cover
John Stuart Mills, Perry Smith, Kazuo Yamasaki
International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 1988 - Art - 163 pages

Contents

Permanence of washi Japanese paper
11
Biochemical investigations on the formation mechanism of foxing
10
The preservation of ancient Chinese paper
19
Conservation work in progress on the Claude Monet collection of Japanese woodblock prints at Giverny
37
watercolours and wallpapers
44
The conservation of eighteenth century Chinese wallpapers in the United Kingdom
52
The construction and repair of Japanese folding screens byōbu
59
A dry method for removing the backing papers from Japanese paintings
69
Study and conservation of some Tibetan thankas
75
Conservation of the textile frames of the thankas from the Tucci Collection Rome
83
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