Research Catalog

Title

Restoration : is it acceptable? / edited by Andrew Oddy.

Publication

London : British Museum, Dept. of Conservation, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Oddy, W. A.
• British Museum. Department of Conservation

Description

ii, 169 p. : ill. (some col); 30 cm.

Series Statement

Occasional paper ; 99

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (British Museum) no. 99.

Subject

• Museum conservation methods > Congresses
• Art > Conservation and restoration > Congresses
• Repair

Note

• Papers originally presented at a symposium on restoration.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Restoration, is it acceptable? / Andrew Oddy -- Restoring what wasn't there: reconsideration of the eighteenth-century restorations to the Landsdowne Herakles in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum / Jerry Podany -- Objects as systems / Suzanna Keene -- Clocks and watches, a re-appraisal? / Francis Brodie -- Changing taste in the restoration of paintings / David Bomford -- Restoration of art on paper in the West / Joanna Kosek -- Is wall painting restoration a representation of the original or a reflection of contemporary fashion? / Heinz Leitner and Stephen Paine.
• Conservation and restoration of miniatures / L.E. Fleming -- Restoration: acceptable to whom? / Tiamat Molina and Marie Pincemin -- Gilt-wood restoration: when is it acceptable? / Colin Jenner -- A constant approach to a mixed collection / Jonathan Ashley-Smith -- The care of rugs and carpets / Sharon Manitta.

ISBN

0861590996 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^94096606^

OCLC

• 31935647
• SCSB-9944705

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library