Modern Art: Who Cares? : an Interdisciplinary Research Project and International Symposium on the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary ArtIJsbrand M. C. Hummelen, Dionne Sillé, Marjan Zijlmans This volume makes a most important contribution to the on-going debate by presenting the conservation challenges relating to ten objects of different media and materials (plastics, kinetic objects, monochromes and works of mixed media) of considerable art-historical value. The ten selected studies include the works of Jean Tinguley, Piero Manzoni, Tony Cragg and Mario Merz. In addition to case studies, this volume includes symposium papers by art historians, physicists, philosophers, artists, conservators and critics on topics as varied as: accidental damage; working with artists; packing and transport; installation; identifying plastics; ethics; training, databases etc. |
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