Overview
- Covers the characterization of modern-contemporary oil paints and paint surfaces
- Investigates softening and dripping paints in contemporary oil paintings
- Focuses on how knowledge is transferred from conservators to researchers and vice versa
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Table of contents (46 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Paint Technology
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Front Matter
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Case Studies: Artists Techniques and Materials; Degradation; Ethical Considerations; Treatment Options
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Keywords
- Conservation of 20th century paintings
- Surface cleaning of Unvarnished Paintings
- Dripping paints
- Paint Degradation
- Oxidative Ageing of Modern Oil Paint
- Stability of Modern Paints
- Conservation of contemporary oil paint surfaces
- Characterization of modern-contemporary oil paints
- CMOP 2015-2018
- Preservation of Art
- Preservation of modern cultural heritage
- Water sensitivity of modern oil paints films
- Colour change in easel paintings
About this book
Artists’ oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of issues that pose increasing difficulties to conservators and collection keepers. A deeper knowledge of the artists’ intent as well as processes associated with material changes in paintings is important to conservation, which is almost always a compromise between material preservation and aesthetics.
This volume represents 46 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Conference of Modern Oil Paints held in Amsterdam in 2018. The book contains a compilation of articles on oil paints and paintings in the 20th Century, partly presenting the outcome of the European JPI project ‘Cleaning of Modern Oil Paints’. It is also a follow-up on ‘Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint’ (Springer, 2014).
The chapters cover a range of themes and topics such as: patents and paint manufacturing in the 20th Century; characterization of modern-contemporary oil paints and paint surfaces; artists’ materials and techniques; the artists’ voice and influence on perception of curators, conservators and scientists; model studies on paint degradation and long term stability; approaches to conservation of oil paintings; practical surface treatment and display.
The book will help conservators and curators recognise problems and interpret visual changes on paintings, which in turn give a more solid basis for decisions on the treatment of these paintings.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conservation of Modern Oil Paintings
Editors: Klaas Jan van den Berg, Ilaria Bonaduce, Aviva Burnstock, Bronwyn Ormsby, Mikkel Scharff, Leslie Carlyle, Gunnar Heydenreich, … Katrien Keune
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19254-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19253-2Published: 18 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19256-3Published: 08 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19254-9Published: 17 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 606
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations, 179 illustrations in colour
Topics: Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Analytical Chemistry, Cultural Heritage, Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Nanotechnology