Research Catalog

Title

Reversibility : does it exist? / edited by Andrew Oddy and Sara Carroll.

Publication

• London : British Museum, [1999]
• ©1999

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Details

Additional Authors

• Oddy, W. A.
• Carroll, Sara, 1956-
• British Museum

Description

viii, 180 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm.

Series Statement

Occasional paper / British Museum, 0142-4815 ; no. 135

Uniform Title

Occasional paper (British Museum) no. 135.

Subject

• Museum conservation methods > Congresses
• Material culture > Conservation and restoration > Congresses
• Art > Conservation and restoration > Congresses
• Museum conservation methods
• Musées > Méthodes de conservation > Congrès
• Culture matérielle > Conservation et restauration > Congrès
• Art > Conservation et restauration > Congrès
• Musées > Méthodes de conservation
• 20.15 conservation, restauration and forgery of works af art
• Art > Conservation and restoration
• Material culture > Conservation and restoration
• Restaurierung
• Reversibilität
• Kongress
• Conservatie
• Restauratie
• Theorievorming
• Material degradation, corrosion inhibition and fracture mechanics
• Arts and crafts
• Documentation, information science and librarianship

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Does reversibility exist in conservation? / Andrew Oddy -- Drawing the line -- reversibility and compromise in the conservation of arms and armour / Robert D. Smith -- Is reversibility an option when conserving industrial collections? / Peter M. Meehan -- Restoration or repair? The dilemma of ancient scientific instrument / Paolo Brenni -- Understanding reversibility in natural science collections / Caroline Buttler -- Back to plastics / Yvonne Shashoua -- Plastic surgery: conservation treatments for flexible polyurethane foams: from face-lift to donating the corpse to science / Thea B. van Oosten -- Volatile binding media -- useful tools for conservation / Elisabeth Jägers and Erhard Jägers -- Restoration -- a kaleidoscope through history / Hiltrud Schinzel -- Imperfect reversibility in paper conservation / Vincent Daniels -- Questions of reversibility in the conservation of paintings on canvas / Paul Ackroyd and David Bomford -- Aspects of reversibility in transferred wall paintings / Isabelle Brajer -- Materials for wall paintings conservation: change of physicochemical properties, ageing effects, and reversibility / Luigi Dei, Piero Baglioni and Marcello Mauro -- Treatment of previously deacidified paper artifacts / Elissa O'Loughlin and Anne Witty -- Reversibility in the restoration of stone artefacts: real possibilities and objective limits / Annamaria Giusti -- Reversibility: a questionable philosophy / Richard D. Smith -- Access as a factor contributing to compromise in conservation-treatment decisions / Karen L. Pavelka -- Swelling as an indicator of removability / Jane L. Down -- Reversibility -- politics and economics / Jonathan Ashley-Smith -- Opacity contrariwise: the reversibility of deteriorated surfaces on vessel glass / Sandra Smith -- Reversibility -- myth and mis-use / Leslie Charteris -- The search for an ideal: reversibility in ceramic conservation / Alice Boccia Paterakis -- Reversibility; the thinking behind the word / Robert Barclay -- Reversibility -- achievable goal or illusion / Nigel J. Seeley -- Museum changes to first nations objects, and their physical and conceptual reversibility / Miriam Clavir -- How greater knowledge of an object can affect an assessment of the reversibility of previous treatments / Helen Murdina Hughes -- Reversibility: dealing with a ghost / Sergio Palazzi.

ISBN

• 0861591356
• 9780861591350

LCCN

00363465

OCLC

• 45153605
• SCSB-10296831

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library