Icon Book and Paper Group General Meeting and Clare Hampson Memorial Lecture

Icon Book and Paper Group General Meeting
and Clare Hampson Memorial Lecture
Art Workers Guild
6 Queen Square
London WC1N 3AT
Monday 4 April 2016
5:30pm

Notice is hereby given of the Icon Book and Paper Group Annual
General Meeting to be held on Monday 4 April 2016 at 5:30pm at the
Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT.  All members are
welcome.

The AGM will be followed at 6:30pm by the Clare Hampson Memorial
Lecture presented by Dr Salvador Munos Vinas and entitled Paper
Conservation: Selective Blindness.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Dr Munoz Vinas is a Professor at the Polytechnic University of
Valencia (UPV) and Head of the Paper Conservation section of the UPV
Conservation Research Institute.  Munoz Vinas has worked as a paper
conservator in the Historical Library of the University of Valencia,
as a visiting scholar in Harvard's Straus Center for Conservation,
and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at New York University.
He has published a number of articles and books on practical and
theoretical aspects of conservation, such as The Technical Analysis
of Renaissance Miniature Paintings (co-authored with Eugene F.
Farrell; Cambridge MA, 1995), Contemporary Theory of Conservation
(Oxford, 2004), and La restauracion del papel (Madrid, 2010).  His
current research interests are in conservation theory and paper
conservation techniques.

A further announcement including booking information will follow
shortly.


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