Theory
To facilitate using the surprisingly sizable literature on the conservation of contemporary art, in our bookshop we present the basic manuals on the subject.
- Plastics
- Theory
- Sculpture, painting, installation
- New media
- Magazines, articles
- Bibliographic databases
- Others
Author: Yvonne Shashoua
Title: Conservation of Plastics: Materials science, degradation and preservation
Publisher: Routledge, 2008
ISBN: 9780750664950
Language: English
Author: Tim Bechthold
Title: Future talks 009: the conservation of modern materials in applied arts and design: papers from the conference held at the Pinakothek Der Moderne Munich 22-23 October 2009
Publisher: Die Neue Sammlung, The International Design Museum, 2011
ISBN: 9783981375510
Language: English
Author: Paul Garside, Cordelia Rogerson
Title: The Future of the 20th Century: Collecting, Interpreting and Conserving Modern Materials
Publisher: Archetype Publications, 2006
ISBN: 9781904982173
Language: English
Author: Anita Quye, Colin Williamson
Title: Plastics: Collecting and Conserving
Publisher: Archetype Publications, 1999
ISBN: 9781901663129
Language: English
Author: Friederike Waentig
Title: Plastics in art: a study from the conservation point of view
Publisher: Imhof, 2009
ISBN: 9783865684059
Language: English
Author: Louise Egan, Brenda Keneghan
Title: PLASTICS: Looking at the Future, Learning from the Past
Publisher: Archetype Publications, 2009
ISBN: 9781904982432
Language: English
Author: Valeria Arrighi, J.M.G. Cowie
Title: Polymers: Chemistry and Physics of Modern Materials, Third Edition
Publisher: CRC Press; 3 edycja, 2007
ISBN: 9780849398131
Language: English
Author: Joyce Townsend, Margot M. Wright
Title: Resins Ancient and Modern, 1995 Conference Proceedings - Aberdeen
Publisher: Scottish Society for Conservation & Restoration, 1995
ISBN: 095264150X
Language: English
Author: David W. Grattan
Title: Saving the twentieth century: the conservation of modern materials: proceedings of a conference Symposium '91: Saving the twentieth century, Ottawa, Canada, 15 to 20 September, 1991
Publisher: Canadian Conservation Institute, 1993
ISBN: 0660578549
Language: English
Author: Jerzy Ciabach
Title: Właściwości żywic sztucznych stosowanych w konserwacji zabytków.
Publisher: Wydawnictwo UMK, 2001
ISBN: 8323112886
Language: Polish
Author: Tina Fiske, Erma Hermens
Title: Art, Conservation and Authenticities: Material, Concept, Context
Publisher: Archetype Publications, 2010
ISBN: 9781904982517
Language: English
Author: Hafthor Yngvason
Title: Conservation and Maintenance of Contemporary Public Art
Publisher: Archetype Publications, 2002
ISBN: 9781873132784
Language: English
Author: Francine Couture, France Vanlaethem
Title: Conservation de l’art contemporain et de l’architecture moderne. L’authenticité en question.
Publisher: Éditions MultiMondes, 2010
ISBN: 9782895441366
Language: French
Author: Oscar Chiantore, Antonio Rava
Title: Conserving Contemporary Art: Issues, Methods, Materials, and Research
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute, 2013
ISBN: 9781606061046
Language: English
Author: Martha Buskirk
Title: The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art
Publisher: The MIT Press, 2005
ISBN: 9780262524421
Language: English
Author: Iwona Szmelter
Title: Innovative Approaches to the Complex Care of Contemporary Art
Publisher: Archetype Publications, 2012
ISBN: 9781904982814
Language: English
Author: Tatja Scholte, Glenn Wharton
Title: Inside installations: Theory and Practice in the Care of Complex Artworks
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press, 2011
ISBN: 9789089642882
Language: English
Author: IJsbrand Hummelen, Dionne Sillé
Title: Modern Art: Who Cares?
Publisher: Archetype Publications, 2006
ISBN: 1904982026
Language: English
Author: Miguel Corzo
Title: Mortality Immortality? The Legacy of 20th-Century Art
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute, 1999
ISBN: 9780892365289
Language: English
Author: Collective work
Title: Regards sur: l'objet du XXe siècle
Publisher: Actes Sud, 2007
ISBN: 9782742768592
Language: French
Author: Ursula Schädler-Saub, Angela Weyer
Title: Theory and Practice in the Conservation of Modern and Contemporary Art: Reflections on the Roots and the Perspectives
Publisher: Archetype Publications, 2010
ISBN: 9781904982548
Language: English
Author: Hiltrud Schinzel
Title: Touching vision: essays on restoration theory and the perception of art
Publisher: ASP-VUB University Press, 2004
ISBN: 9789054873525
Language: English
Author: Thomas J. S. Learner
Title: Analysis of Modern Paints
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute, 2005
ISBN: 9780892367795
Language: English
Author: Michel Marc Bouchard, Brian Considine, Katrina Posner, Julie Wolfe
Title: Conserving Outdoor Sculpture: The Stark Collection at the Getty Center
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010
ISBN: 9781606060100
Language: English
Author: Glenn Harper, Twylene Moyer
Title: Conversations on Sculpture
Publisher: University of Washington Press 2007
ISBN: 9780295987415
Language: English
Author: Jackie Heuman
Title: From Marble to Chocolate: the Conservation of Modern Sculpture
Publisher: Archetype Publications, 2001
ISBN: 1873132859
Language: English
Author: Jay W. Krueger, Thomas J. S. Learner, Michael R. Schilling, Patricia Smithen
Title: Modern paints uncovered: proceedings from the Modern Paints Uncovered symposium organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, Tate, and the National Gallery of Art: Tate Modern, London, May 16-19, 2006
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007
ISBN: 9780892369065
Language: English
Author: John Pitman Weber
Title: Politics and Practice of Community: Public Art: Whose Murals Get Saved?
Paper presented at the Getty symposium "Mural Painting and Conservation in the Americas," Los Angeles, CA, May 16-17, 2003
Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute, 2003
Language: English
Free download: http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/weber.pdf
Author: Kinga Olesiejuk
Title: Znaczenie przemijania. Wybrane zagadnienia konserwacji dzieł sztuki współczesnej na przykładzie instalacji Ilji Kabakowa „Szkoła nr 6”
Publisher: Universitas, 2011
ISBN: 9788324212460
Language: Polish
Author: Collective work
Title: La conservation à l'ère du numérique. Actes des quatrièmes journées internationales d'études de l'ARSAG, Paris, 27-30 mai 2002
Publisher: Association pour la recherche scientifique sur les arts graphiques (ARSAG), 2002
Language: French, English
Summary: http://arsag.fr/pdf/ji02-sommaire.pdf
Resumes: http://arsag.fr/pdf/ji02-resumes.pdf
Author: Collective work
Title: The Digital Dilemma 2. Perspectives from Independent Filmmakers, Documentarians and Nonprofit Audiovisual Archives
Publisher: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 2012
ISBN: 9780984015023
Language: English
Free download: http://www.oscars.org/science-technology/council/projects/digitaldilemma2/
Author: Sibylle Monod
Title: Environnement et conservation de l'écrit de l'image et du son. Actes des deuxièmes journées internationales d'études de l'ARSAG. Paris - 16 au 20 mai 1994
Publisher: Association pour la recherche scientifique sur les arts graphiques (ARSAG), 2002
Language: French, English
Summary: http://arsag.fr/pdf/ji94-sommaire.pdf
Resumes: http://arsag.fr/pdf/ji94-resumes.pdf
Author: Collective work
Title: The Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Publisher: National Film Preservation Foundation, 2004
ISBN: 0974709905
Language: English
Free download: http://www.filmpreservation.org/preservation-basics/the-film-preservation-guide
Author: Kevin Bradley
Title: Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects
Publisher: International Association of Sound Archives, 2009
ISBN: 9789197619233
Language: English
Available online: http://www.iasa-web.org/tc04/audio-preservation
Author: Mark-Paul Meyer, Paul Read
Title: Restoration of Motion Picture Film
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2000
ISBN: 9780750627931
Language: English
Author: Jim Wheeler
Title: Videotape Preservation Handbook
Publisher: The Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), 2002
Language: English
Free download: http://www.amianet.org/resources/guides/WheelerVideo.pdf
Title: The Canadian Conservation Institute Notes
Publisher: Canadian Conservation Institute
Language: English, French
Available online: issues 1988–2010:
http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/publications/notes/index-eng.aspx (english version)
http://www.cci-icc.gc.ca/publications/notes/index-fra.aspx (french version)
Title: Conservation Bulletin
Publisher: Historic Building and Monuments Commission for England (English Heritage)
Language: English
Available online: issues 1 – 68 (years 1987 – 2012): http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/publications/conservation-bulletin/
Title: ICOMOS Open Archive: Eprints on Cultural Heritage
Publisher: International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
Language: Multiple
Available online: http://openarchive.icomos.org/view/
Title: Journal of the American Institute for Conservation
Publisher: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)
Language: English
Available online: issues 16 – 44 (years 1977 – 2005): http://cool.conservation-us.org/jaic/tocvol.html
Title: Ochrona zabytków
Publisher: Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa (NID)
Language: Polish
Available online: issues 2003 – 2009: http://www.nid.pl/idm,378,pn,3.html
Language: English
Title: TATE Papers
Publisher: Tate
Available online: http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications
AATA Online is a comprehensive database of over 121,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage.
Available online: http://aata.getty.edu/Home
Bibliographic Database of the Conservation Information Network is the Web's most complete bibliographic resource for the conservation, preservation and restoration of cultural property.
Language: English, French
Available online: http://www.bcin.ca/
Project Bibliographies was created during the conservation and scientific research conducted by the Getty Conservation Institute. Currently, there are more than 6,500 items available.
Language: English
Available online: http://gcibibs.getty.edu/asp/
„CAMEO is a searchable information center developed by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The MATERIALS database contains chemical, physical, visual, and analytical information on over 10,000 historic and contemporary materials used in the production and conservation of artistic, architectural, archaeological, and anthropological materials.
To search both English and non-English (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, etc.) terms in the MATERIALS database, enter the full or partial term in the box below.”
Available online: http://cameo.mfa.org/
„CoOL (Conservation Online), an online resource operated by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials. It is a growing online resource for conservators, collection care specialists, and other conservation professionals.”
Available online: http://cool.conservation-us.org/
