Title & Author:

Looking at paper : evidence & interpretation : symposium proceedings, Toronto 1999 / edited by John Slavin [and others].

Publication:

Ottawa : Canadian Conservation Institute, [2001]
©2001

Description:

3 preliminary leaves, 262 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 30 cm

Notes:
"Held at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Gallery of Ontario, May 13-16, 1999."
Includes bibliographical references.
pt. 1. Presentations. The white art : the importance of interpretation in the analysis of paper -- Invoking the past : John Taylor Arms' use of antique papers -- History revealed : looking at Ferdinand Bauer's Flora Graeca -- The role of China paper in nineteenth-century French printmaking -- Fibre analysis of selected oriental printing papers : appendix to The role of China paper in nineteenth-century French printmaking -- Academic studies of Acad?mies : the search for French academy paper -- Observations on the dating of the Fourth State of Degas's Edouard Manet, bust-length portrait -- The prints and the papers : Whistler's Venice sets at the Freer Gallery of Art -- The lithographs of James McNeill Whistler : methods of identifying lifetime and posthumous impressions -- Contemporary artists' papers : an overview of works at the National Gallery of Canada -- An introduction to the National Gallery of Art's paper sample collection -- From sketch to presentation : a study of drawing, tracing and speciality papers used by American architects -- Paper evidence and the interpretation of the creative process in modern literary manuscripts -- Board making in Lalande's Art du cartonnier -- Design for water-powered stampers : early Italian papermaking technology illustrated in a drawing in the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal -- A technical revolution in papermaking, 1250-1350 -- Quality and quantity? Eighteenth-century acceleration of hand methods of papermaking -- Papiers Briquet : the Charles-M?ise Briquet Archive in Geneva -- Fickle friends : watermarks and paper evidence in sixteenth-century Italian ornament prints -- Martha and Mary, 1568-70 : the use of a pair of watermarks in reconstructing the Venetian map trade -- Digital imaging : watermarks, rare and fragile books, palimpsests -- Historical and literary papers and the application of watermark descriptions : a case study based upon the archivalrecords of the 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford -- Beating the forger : case studies in forensic paper investigation -- New Zealand paper trails : experimentation with alternative fibres in the nineteenth century -- Through the microscope lens : classification of oriental paper technology and fibres -- Japanese decorated and processed papers of the nineteenth century -- Characterization of western handmade decorated paper : development of a standard terminology -- pt. 2. Workshops. Examining western papers : a workshop with Peter Bower -- Examining oriental papers : a workshop with Akinori?kawa -- pt. 3. Contributors.

Summary:

This is a survey of some of the various methods used to investigate papers and record the results of those investigations. It covers some of the similarities and differences in investigating works of art on paper, documents, and printed material through fibre analysis and watermarks along with their recording. The accuracy of historical reference material, the importance of mill records as well as other archival material, and the needs for comparative material are discussed. Keeping an open mind in both the analysis and interpretation of the evidence is stressed, along with the importance of collaboration with investigators in other fields. Some aspects of papermaking and watermarking practice that seem rarely to be considered, but which can often have an important part to play in interpreting one's findings, will be highlighted.

ISBN:

0660185717 (paperback)
9780660185712 (paperback)

Subject:

Paper Congresses.
Paper History Congresses.
Papermaking Congresses.
Papermaking History Congresses.
Watermarks Congresses.
Paper art Congresses.
Paper history
Papier Congrès.
Papier Histoire Congrès.
Papeterie Congrès.
Papeterie Histoire Congrès.
Filigranes (Papeterie) Congrès.
Art du papier Congrès.
Paper
Paper art
Papermaking
Watermarks
Papier.
Materiaalonderzoek.
Grafische kunst.

Form/genre:

Congress
Conference proceedings.
Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Slavin, John, editor.
Canadian Conservation Institute, publisher.
Royal Ontario Museum, host institution.
Art Gallery of Ontario, host institution.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219860
Call No.: TS1080 .L6 2001
Status: Available