Recent Trends in Conservation of Art Heritage (Dr. O.P. Agrawal Festschrift)
Dhawan, Shashi (Ed.)
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Book ID : 2688
ISBN-10 : 81-7320-023-8 / 8173200238
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7320-023-6 / 9788173200236
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
1996
Edition :
Language : English
xxix, 312p., Ills., Plts., Figs., 29 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Preface. Part I: 1. Conservation of world's heritage: a personal view/B.M. Feilden. 2. Tradition vs science in the conservation of cultural property/N. Harinarayana. 3. General conservation surveys and assessment of facilities in small museums and historic houses/C.Z. Felker Dennis. 4. Conservation practices of textiles in India/Usha Agrawal. 5. The use of synthetic polymers for the conservation of textiles/Liliane Masschelein-Kleiner. 6. Diagnosis and evaluation of products : essential steps for the conservation of architectural surfaces/Marisa L. Tabasso. 7. Thin layer chromatography in conservation of art objects/B.V. Kharbade. 8. Towards an expert system on out door monuments/R.M. Organ. 9. Acid deposition and stone decay/M. Aslam. 10. Deterioration and conservation of sand stone/K.K. Jain, Tej Singh and A.K. Mishra. 11. Technical study of Bidriware-a review/A.S. Bisht. 12. Biodeterioration : gaps in our knowledge and the need for further research/S.M. Nair. Part II: 13. Textiles as historic documents and their conservation/Keren Finch. 14. Conservation of Tibetan Thangka/Gustav A. Berger. 15. A scientific study of paper manuscript/D.G. Suryawanshi and P.M. Sinha. 16. Indian minatures in the castle of Schonbrunn, Vienna and the problems of their preservation/Manfred Koller. 17. Studies on synthetic glue for the conservation of Tempra painting/Kulpanthada Janposri. 18. Conservation of Mural painting at Wat Nor Puttangkul Supanburi/Wannipana Songkhla. 19. More light on Van Eyck/Leopold Kockaert. 20. The preservation of damaged stone by the Acrylic-total-impregnation process : a report on fifteen years experimentations/Rolf Wihr. 21. The conservation of movable cultural property from the undersites: the case of Mombasa Wreck/Wazwa Mwadime. 22. Conservation of monuments in the Kenya cost - the case of Mnarani pillar/Phillip Jimbi Katana. 23. Our recent studies on decay and preservation of stone objects/K.L. Gauri and Srinivas S. Yerrapragada.
DESCRIPTION
At present hardly any literature is available in a composite form on conservation of art heritage on the techniques of the world adopted in countries, situated in different climatic zones. This lacuna would be filled by the papers presented here, covering different branches of conservation science, including different types of materials like stone, paintings, paper etc. The papers presented in this volume are in the form of review articles and case studies. The book, the only one of its type, should prove to be of immense interest to art lovers, conservation students and conservationists curators of museums all over the world. This volume contains 23 papers and 5 tributes. It has about 350 pages of text and is illustrated with figures and plates.
