Title & Author:

The broad spectrum : studies in the materials, techniques, and conservation of color on paper / edited by Harriet K. Stratis and Britt Salvesen.

Publication:

London : Archetype Publications, 2002.

Description:

viii, 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Chapter 1, Pastel and chalk: An aesthetic overview of the pastel palette: 1500-1900 / Marjorie Shelley -- Distinguishing between chalk and pastel in early drawings / Thea Burns -- Making up the face: technique and meaning in the pastels of Rosalba Carriera / Thea Burns -- Materials, methods, and meanings in Edgar Degas's late pastels / Richard Kendall -- An investigation of the pastels of Giuseppe De Nittis and the pastel revival of the later nineteenth century / Anne F. Maheux -- James McNeill Whistler: the color of line / Margaret F. MacDonald -- Blues and browns and drabs: the evolution of colored papers / Peter Bower -- Housing a pastel collection at the National Archives of Canada, pt. 1: Pick it up ... and move it out / Gilbert L. Gignac and Gregory J. Hill -- pt. 2: God is in the details: the conservation treatment of early Canadian pastels / Maria Bedynski and Gregory J. Hill.
Chapter 2, Watercolour and ink: Cause and effect in the historical development of watercolor / Marjorie B. Cohn -- Observations on the fucnctions of watercolors and pastels in Italian renaissance drawings / Thomas McGrath -- The history and technology of renaissance and baroque hand-colored prints / Susan Dackerman and Thomas Primeau -- The analysis of watercolor materials, in particular Turner's watercolors at the Tate Gallery (1790s t0 1840s) / Joyce H. Townsend -- Paul Cézanne's watercolors: his choice of pigments and papers / Faith Zieske -- Winslow Homer's watercolor pigments / Barbara Berrie, Yoonjoo Strumfels, and Carol Tolocka -- The history and use of colored inks / Carlo James -- Aging of paper and pigments containing iron and copper: a review / Vincent Daniels -- Effects of aqueous treatment on iron-gall ink, monitoring iron migration with the iron (II) indicator test / Elmer Eusman -- All the colors of white: the changing nature of white papers / Peter Bower.
Chapter 3, Nineteenth and twentieth century materials: In the kitchen with Paul Gauguin: devising recipes for a symbolist graphic aesthetic / Peter Kort Zegers -- The use and misuse of distemper in the works of Edouard Vuillard: a curator's view / Gloria Groom -- : A conservator's view / Faye T. Wrubel -- The treatment of two Karel Appel gouaches / Piet van Dalen and Gabriëlle Beentjes -- Daylight flourescent colors as artistic media / Margaret Holben Ellis, Christopher W. McGlinchey, and Esther Chao -- Assessing the impact of storage environments on the color transfer of felt-tipped pen on paper / Barbara Rosenberg -- The preservation and conservation of ink jet and electrophotographic printed materials / Debbie Glynn -- On material(ism) or Why painting conservators have all the fun / Daria Keynan.
Chapter 4, The materials of Asian art: Color as language in traditional Japanese prints / Roger S. Keyes and Elizabeth I. Coombs -- Aqueous treatment of Ukiyo-e prints of the Edo period: three case studies /Pamela de Tristan -- Painted Japanese screens: the consolidation of paint layers on a paper substrate / Sandra Grantham and Alan Cummings -- The conservation of a set of Japanese Fusuma / Mitsuhiro Abe and Sydney Thomson -- Chinese color printing technology and history in the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Painting and Calligraphy / M. Brigitte Yeh -- Indian paintings on paper, textiles, and mica: conservation, storage, and display / Mike Wheeler, Pauline Webber, Anna Hillcoat-Imanishi, and Clair Battisson. -- Chapter 5, The assessment of fading: Statistics without anesthesia: interpreting color data / Roy Perkinson -- The use of the X-Rite Colortron for color measurement of watercolors / Barbara J. Mangum and Arlen Heginbotham -- Pursuing the fugitive: direct measurement of light sensitivity with micro-fading tests / Paul M. Whitmore -- The user's point of view: micro-fading test results and the shaping of exhibition policy / Craigen Bowen, Barbara J. Mangum, and Meredith Montague.

Summary:

"This comprehensively illustrated volume represents a unique collection of expertise and will be of interest to art historians and curators as well as researchers, practitioners and students of conservation."--Amazon.

Resources:
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ISBN:

1873132573 (alk. paper)
9781873132579 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Art Conservation and restoration Congresses.
Pigments Preservation Congresses.
Paper Preservation Congresses.
Art Technique Congresses.
Art Conservation et restauration Congrès.
Pigments Conservation Congrès.
Papier Conservation Congrès.
Art Technique Congrès.
Art Conservation and restoration.
Art Technique.
Paper Preservation.
Pigments Preservation.
Kongress
Bestandserhaltung
Buch
Gemälderestaurierung
Künstlerisches Material
Methode
Papier
Kleuren.
Conservatie.

Form/genre:

Kongress Chicago (Ill.) 1999.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Konferenzschrift 1999 Chicago Ill.

Added entries:

Stratis, Harriet K., 1960-
Salvesen, Britt.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room conservation 223094
Call No.: NC930 .B7 2002
Status: Available