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

By: Contributor(s): Series: Occasional paper (British Museum) ; no. 99.Publication details: [London] : British Museum Department of Conservation, 1994.Description: ii, 169 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9780861590995
  • 0861590996
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Contents:
Foreword / Andrew Oddy -- Restoration - is it acceptable? / Andrew Oddy -- Restoring what wasn't there: reconsideration of the eighteenth-century restorations to the Lansdowne Herakles in the collection of The J Paul Getty Museum / Jerry Podany -- Objects as systems: a new challenge for conservation / Suzanne 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: a consideration of changing attitudes and values / Joanna Kosek -- Is wall painting restoration a representation of the original or a reflection of contemporary fashion: an Austrian perspective / Heinz Leitner and Stephen Paine -- Conservation and restoration of miniatures: past and present / 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: the case for textile conservators / Sharon Manitta -- Restoration or conservation - issues for textile conservators, a textile conservation perspective / Mary Brooks, Caroline Clark, Dinah Eastop and Carla Petschek -- The treatment of an upright grand pianoforte c.1808 / Timothy Hayes -- The restoration of vehicles for use in research, exhibition, and demonstration / Peter Mann -- Putting things in context - The ethics of working collections / Bob Child -- Filling lacunae in florentine mosaic and tessera mosaic: reflections and proposals / Annamaria Giusti -- The armourer's craft: restoration or conservation? / David Edge -- Filling and painting of ceramics for exhibition in the British Museum / Sandra Smith.

Preprints for the conference 'Restoration - is it acceptable?' given at the British Museum 24-25 November 1994.

Foreword: "The aim of this conference is to explore attitudes to restoration, and the title of the meeting, 'Restoration - is it acceptable?' was deliberately framed as a question."

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Andrew Oddy -- Restoration - is it acceptable? / Andrew Oddy -- Restoring what wasn't there: reconsideration of the eighteenth-century restorations to the Lansdowne Herakles in the collection of The J Paul Getty Museum / Jerry Podany -- Objects as systems: a new challenge for conservation / Suzanne 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: a consideration of changing attitudes and values / Joanna Kosek -- Is wall painting restoration a representation of the original or a reflection of contemporary fashion: an Austrian perspective / Heinz Leitner and Stephen Paine -- Conservation and restoration of miniatures: past and present / 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: the case for textile conservators / Sharon Manitta -- Restoration or conservation - issues for textile conservators, a textile conservation perspective / Mary Brooks, Caroline Clark, Dinah Eastop and Carla Petschek -- The treatment of an upright grand pianoforte c.1808 / Timothy Hayes -- The restoration of vehicles for use in research, exhibition, and demonstration / Peter Mann -- Putting things in context - The ethics of working collections / Bob Child -- Filling lacunae in florentine mosaic and tessera mosaic: reflections and proposals / Annamaria Giusti -- The armourer's craft: restoration or conservation? / David Edge -- Filling and painting of ceramics for exhibition in the British Museum / Sandra Smith.