The expanded field of conservation / edited by Caroline Fowler and Alexander Nagel.

"A global reconsideration and broadening of the definition of art conservation through the lenses of theory, ethics, culture, and history. Thought-provoking and timely, this volume challenges inherited thinking on art conservation practice and purposefully reconsiders the definition of the field. Sc...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Clark studies in the visual arts.
Corporate Author: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Organizer)
Other Authors: Fowler, Caroline O. (Editor, Contributor)
Nagel, Alexander (Editor, Author of introduction, etc.)
Language:English
Published: Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, [2022]
Series:Clark studies in the visual arts.
Subjects:
Art > Conservation and restoration.
ART / Criticism & Theory.
Physical Description:231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. Conservation as performance / Alexander Nagel
  • Making-Remaking. Chapter 1. Copy | Repeat : conserving South Asian painting through practice / Murad Khan Mumtaz ; Chapter 2. The overpaint-ability of Madonnas in 1300s Siena / Annika Svendsen Finne ; Chapter 3. Japanese painting : mounting, mediation, transmission, renewal / Yukio Lippit ; Chapter 4. Conservation practice and the appearance of Japanese paintings / Iwatarō Oka
  • Enacting-Teaching. Chapter 5. Conserving ourselves / creating ourselves / Alva Noë ; Chapter 6. Conservation and the technique of art history / Sven Dupré
  • Materials surfacing. Chapter 7. The Bettmann Morgue : cold storage, digitization, and archives of racial violence / Brian Michael Murphy ; Chapter 8. Minimum worlds : material poetics between time, details, and fragments / Gabriela Siracusano
  • Institutions working. Chapter 9. The arts of the same / Fernando Domínquez Rubio ; Chapter 10. Art history and the condition report / Caroline Fowler ; Chapter 11. But who decided? On the epistemes and politics of photographic decay / Jennifer Bajorek
  • Nation forming. Chapter 12. Can conservation be decentered? / Noémie Étienne ; Chapter 13. Conserving monuments, reviving temples : communities, monuments, and politics in South India / Kavita Singh.