Publication on paintings conservation

ICON Paintings Group Publication
Publication discount

We are offering a discount price of UKP15.00 (plus UKP2.50 for
postage and packaging within the UK) when ordered through ICON
Paintings Group:

    Current Technical Challenges in the Conservation of Paintings.
    Angelina Barros D'Sa, Lizzie Bone, Rhiannon Clarricoates, Helen
    Dowding (eds)

As artists have increasingly utilised modern materials and
techniques, it has presented the conservator with a host of new and
complex problems that need to be addressed.  As such, this is a
subject of great interest to conservators, many of whom had
expressed an interest in an event that could supplement their
existing knowledge in this field.  In response to this, the
Institute of Conservation's Paintings Group decided that this would
be an appropriate theme for a conference that could provide a
platform for contributors to disseminate their research on a number
of topics relating to the conservation of contemporary art works.
In addition, a call was put out for contributors who might be
developing new and innovative techniques and materials to address
conservation problems, or who might be utilising well-known
materials that are already in the conservator's toolkit in a new
capacity.

The papers in this volume were presented at the Paintings Group's
conference Modern Conservation: What's New?  held at The Wallace
Collection in London in October 2014.  It covered a variety of
topics including: consolidants and flake laying; the possible use of
sports injury tape as a temporary means of support during structural
conservation treatments; rigid inserts to stretchers to reduce
vibrations; auxiliary supports for modern paintings; the problem of
softening and weeping paints in modern works of art and methods of
treatment; wet surface cleaning treatments for contemporary
paintings; and ethical considerations when dealing with conceptual
artists' wishes.

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    Francis Downing
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    UK.

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