Research Catalog

Title

Holding it all together : ancient and modern approaches to joining, repair and consolidation / edited by Janet Ambers ... [et al.].

Publication

London : Archetype, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ambers, J.
• British Museum

Description

xi, 210 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 30 cm.

Summary

"Understanding the choices, materials and techniques involved when an object was originally put together and the repair and renewal processes that it has undergone can be vital for both the curator and the conservator... While much can be learned from ancient repair techniques, the evaluation of modern materials continues to be an essential element for the conservation process, both in general terms and for specific materials. Informed interpretation of the relationship between historic and modern methods used in the making and remaking of objects is also important in the continuing study of their significance and history and when developing strategies for their future preservation. All these aspects are addressed here in a way that is accessible to curators, conservators, conservation scientists and students." -- Back cover.

Subject

• Art > Conservation and restoration > Congresses
• Art objects > Conservation and restoration > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

• Selected conference papers.
• Contains written versions of presentations given at a two-day meeting ... held in the Clore Education Centre of the British Museum on 21 and 22 February 2008--p. ix.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Part 1 : Joins and repairs : ancient and traditional -- Glass and ceramics. Ancient glass gluing recipes / Gerhard Eggert and Daniela Simone Straub ; Ancient repairs in archaeological research : a Near Eastern perspective / Renske Dooijes and Olivier Peter Nieuwenhuyse ; Joining clay : a comparison of modern and ancient techniques / Dean E. Arnold ; Prehistoric and ethnographic repair techniques and materials on southwestern Native American pottery / Chris White, Nancy Odegaard and Arianna Lea Shackle ; The use of ethnographic and scientific knowledge to explore creosote lac repairs on pottery vessels at the Arizona State Museum / Arianna Lea Shackle, Dean Sully, Renata Peters and Chris White -- Metals. Bronze Age metalwork from central Norway : some examples of ancient and modern repair / Lucy Skinner ; Interpreting the construction and function of the terrets from the Ferry Fryston chariot burial / Sonia O'Connor ; Rivets : connection and repair in Mississipian period copper artefacts / Kim Cullen Cobb and Thomas Evans -- Organics. A 13,000 year old repair : new observations on a Late Magdalenian spearthrower from Montastruc, Tarn-et-Garonne, France / Clare Ward, Janet Ambers and Jill Cook ; Continuity or change? : the use and function of birch bark tar in Norwegian Early Iron Age grave contexts / Camilla C. Nordby ; Construction, modification and repair of Mexican mosaics : evidence from the adhesives / Rebecca J. Stacey and Caroline R. Cartwright ; The historic repair and re-use of Byzantine wooden bookboards in the manuscript collection of the monastery of St Catherine, Sinai / Andrew Honey and Athanasios Velios ; The Pälkäne crucifix : unusual joining materials in a polychrome crucifix from Finland / Suvi Leukumaavaara ; Repairs in antiquity illustrated by examples from the prehistory of Denmark / Helge Brinch Madsen.
• Part 2 : Joins and repairs : modern (post nineteenth century) -- Modern adhesives. Poly(vinyl acetate) and acrylic adhesives : a research update / Jane L. Down ; Identification of a formulation change in a conservation-grade adhesive / Petronella Nel and Deborah Lau -- Glass and ceramics. A history of joining glass fragments / Sandra Davison ; Paraloid B-72 : 25 years of use as a consolidant and adhesive for ceramics and glass / Stephen P. Koob ; Internal fractures on stained glass windows : a conservation study / Katrin Wittstadt and Peter Mottner ; Studies of the degradation of epoxy resins used for the conservation of glass / Ines Coutinho, Ana Maria Ramos, Augusta M. Lima and Francisco Braz Fernandes -- Stone. Never forever : assembly of sculpture guided by the demands of disassembly / Jerry Podany, Erik Risser and Eduardo Sanchez ; An evaluation of potential adhesives for marble repair / Mersedeh Jorjani, George Wheeler, Carolyn Riccardelli, Wole Soboyejo and Nima Rahbar --^
• Organics. The consolidation of wood with Paraloid B-72 solutions / Irena Kucerova and Daniela Drncova ; A study of the effects of PVAC on works of art on paper and wood : pH and colour change / Gema Campo Frances, Anna Nualart Torroja, Marta Oriola Folch and Cristina Ruiz Recasens -- Part 3 : Case studies -- Means, materials and ethics : the conservation of two Egyptian mummies for long term display / Jane T. Bouvard and Melangell Penrhys Jones -- Ancient and modern joining techniques on a bronze Hellenistic urn / Eleni Asderaki-Tzoumerkioti -- Modelling the Caergwrle bowl : ancient, historic and modern methods / Mary Davis and Annette Townsend -- An investigation of repairs to Chinese bronze artefacts at the Harvard Art Museum / Susan D. Costello, Katherine Eremin and Francesca G. Bewer -- Boundaries and authenticity in the Monument to Marchese Spinetta Malaspina / Sarah Healey-Dilkes and Jonathan Kemp --^
• The mechanical assembly of a Renaissance terracotta relief : restoring a tin glazed work of art / Elisabeth Huber, Antonio Iaccarino Idelson and Carlo Serino -- Investigation and analysis of historic early twentieth century Mexican restoration fills and repairs on Casas Grandes ceramics at the Arizona State Museum / Caitlin O'Grady.

ISBN

• 9781904982470 (pbk.)
• 1904982476 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 440125188
• SCSB-10247109

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library