Title & Author:

Modern works, modern problems? : conference papers / edited by Alison Richmond ; conference committee, Sophia Fairclough, Camilla Baskcomb, Heather Norville-Day.

Publication:

Description:

180 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
"Papers presented to the Institute of Paper Conservation held at the Tate Gallery, 3rd-5th March 1994."
At head of title: The Institute of Paper Conservation.
Includes bibliographical references.
Prints and printmaking -- The use of basic dyes in lithographic inks and their influence on conservation treatments / A J.E Brown -- Problems with screenprints / Piers Townshend -- Printmaking: a collaboration between people and materials / Lisa Psarianos -- Research & development in printmaking: some aspects of the recent work at the Curwen Chilford Studios / Kip Gresham -- Observations of tape removal from the Green Man series of silkscreen prints by Dame Elisabeth Frink, 1992 / Penny Jenkins -- Modern paper -- Making artists' papers at Hayle Mill / Simon Barcham Green -- Some aspects of the conservation of pigment-coated papers / Samuel Mizrachi -- Who made this rubbish? -- The historical investigation of particular twentieth-century papers / Peter Bower -- Disappearing art -- Paper in modern art / Roy A. Perry -- The conservation of faxes and colour photocopies, with special reference to David Hockney's 'home made prints' / Heather Norville-Day -- Collage and special papers -- Issues in collage conservation / Daria Keynan -- The early collages of John Piper / Christine Mackay -- John Heartfield's photomontages: technique and conservation / Moya Tönnies -- Flash Gordon and Tarzan are alive and well -- Conservation of original cartoon and fantasy art / Patricia Dacus Hamm -- Conservation and curatorial changes to David Smith's drawing 'Untitled' relative humidity / Gunnar Heydenreich -- Drawings in fibre-tipped pen -- new conservation challenges / Margaret Holben Ellis -- North moves south: conservation solutions for a large collection of Inuit prints and drawings / Linda Sutherland -- The dilemma of the dialogue: joint decision-making by curators and conservators / Sue Murphy -- The allocation of legal responsibility in a project for the conservation of a work of art on paper / Robin Neill -- Unusual media -- A sticky problem: technical study and treatment of a Sam Francis 'gouache' wedged between glass / Dianne van der Reyden -- The technology of poster paint / Susan Arnold -- Acrylic and poster paint: two case studies of works by Sam Francis and Roger Hilton / Sophia Fairclough -- The sculptor as painter -- conserving the drawings of Anish Kapoor / Rosie Freemantle -- Robert Rauschenberg: the neo-Dada junk aesthetic / Amanda Swift -- When artist's intent is accidental. Artists' acceptance of and experimentation with changes and transformations in materials / Paula Volent.
Papers in English; abstracts in English, French and German.

ISBN:

0950726850 (pbk.)
9780950726854 (pbk.)

Subject:

Art Conservation and restoration Congresses.
Paper Preservation Congresses.
Art conservation & restoration.
Paper conservation & restoration.
Art Conservation et restauration Congrès.
Papier Conservation Congrès.
Art Conservation and restoration.
Paper Preservation.
Papier.
Kunstvoorwerpen.
Conservatie.
Plastics.
paper conservation
modern works
modern problems

Form/genre:

Conference proceedings.
Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

Richmond, Alison.
Tate Gallery.
Institute of Paper Conservation.

Conference papers
Conference papers, 1994

Holdings:

Location: Library conservation office 134636
Call No.: ID Z701.3.P38.M63 CONS; ID:97-B51
Status: Available