Title & Author:

Keep it moving? : conserving kinetic art : proceedings from the meeting organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the ICOM-CC Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Working Group, and Museo del Novecento, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, June 30-July 2, 2016 / Rachel Rivenc and Reinhard Bek, editors.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Los Angeles, California : Getty Conservation Institute, 2018.
©2018

Description:

xi, 175 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
The Getty Conservation Institute, Proceedings.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Timothy P. Whalen -- Preface / Rachel Rivenc -- Opening Remarks : the Kinetic Collection at the Museo del Novecento, Milan / Iolanda Ratti -- Part 1. Keynotes : -- A question of KinEthics / Reinhard Bek -- The fluid boundaries between interpretation and overinterpretation : collecting, conserving, and staging kinetic art installations / Tiziana Caianiello -- Part 2. Case studies : -- Fast and furious : operation, maintenance, and repair of Chris Burden's Metropolis II at LACMA / Mark Gilberg, Alison Walker, and Richard Sandomeno -- Conserving Thomas Wilfred's Lumia Suite, Opus 158 / Carol Snow and Lynda Zycherman -- Cybernetic umbrella : a case study in collaboration / Carla Flack, Louise Lawson, Jack McConchie, and Ming-Yi Tsai -- Moving with the times : the refurbishment and restoration of a choreographed robotic arm / Sherry Phillips and Marcel Verner -- Part 3. Collections/artists' oeuvres : -- Takis and the fourth dimension / Erin Stephenson and Kari Dodson -- Preserving performativity : conserving the elusive in Aleksandar Srnec's artwork / Mirta Pavić and Vesna Meštrić -- Engineering a solution : Latin American light-based kinetic art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston / Jane Gillies and Ingrid Seyb -- Intertwined strategies for conservation and display of kinetic art : case studies in the European neo-avant-garde / Francesca Pola and Barbara Ferriani -- The examination and conservation of thirteen artworks by Jean Tinguely in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Esther Meijer, Susanne Meijer, and Sandra Weerdenburg -- Part 4. Theoretical issues : the hype about ZERO and its influence on the conservation and presentation of early kinetic works / Gunnar Heydenreich and Julia Giebeler -- Kinetic multiples : between industrial vocation and handcrafted solutions / Isabel Plante -- The collection of Nicolas Schöffer : from the artist's studio to the museum / Manon D'haenens, Muriel Verbeeck, and David Strivay -- "Pretty Good for the 21st Century" : restoration, reconstruction, and realization of Len Lye's "Tangible Motion Sculpture" / Paul Brobbel and Simon Rees -- Part 5. Posters : -- Conserving mechanical elements in technological artifacts : three case studies from Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci," Milan / Marianna Cappellina and Claudio Giorgione -- Think big! the conservation of Ballerina Clown, a kinetic work of art by Jonathan Borofsky / Mine Erhan -- Conserving a kinetic "Rotor" : Light Dynamo by Heinz Mack / Paola Iazurlo, Grazia De Cesare, and Mariastella Margozzi -- Considering the continuum of care for outdoor kinetic sculpture / Abigail Mack, Friederike Steckling, and Sara Levin -- Gianni Colombo's Strutturazione cinevisuale abitabile : from flickering to light / Marlies Peller, Gerda Kaltenbruner, and Martina Pfenninger Lepage -- Death of a moment: management, installation, and maintenance of a site-specific kinetic sculpture / Eugenia Stamatopoulou -- Future in motion : conservation issues of seven kinetic artworks by dutch artist Ray Staakman / Carien van Aubel, Nikki van Basten, Katja van de Braak, Sjoukje van der Laan, Anouk Verbeek, and Marleen Wagenaar -- The conservation ethics of and strategies for preserving and exhibiting an operational car : the motion and standstill of Joost Conijn's Hout Auto (Wood Car) / Arthur van Mourik -- Contributors -- Symposium participants -- Index of videos.

ISBN:

9781606065389 (paperback)
1606065386 (paperback)
(electronic book)
9781606065372
(online)
9781606065365

Subject:

Kinetic art Conservation and restoration Congresses.
Art, Modern 20th century Congresses.
Art 20e siècle Congrès.
Art, Modern.

Form/genre:

Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Rivenc, Rachel, editor.
Bek, Reinhard, editor.
Getty Conservation Institute, issuing body, organizer, publisher.
ICOM Committee for Conservation. Working Group Modern Materials and Contemporary Art, organizer.
Museo del Novecento (Milan, Italy), organizer.
Palazzo reale di Milano, host institution.

Conserving kinetic art
Proceedings from the meeting organized by the Getty Conservation Institute
Proceedings : Keep it moving?, conserving kinetic art

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320494
Call No.: 320494
Copy: 1
Status: Available