Paper and Water A Guide for Conservators

Paper and Water: A Guide for Conservators (Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology) by Gerhard Banik (Author), Irene Bruckle (Author). That is the first compendium for conservation professionals concerned with the preservation of paper artifacts in archives, libraries and fantastic art museums around the world. The worldwide group of expert authors explain the principal interactions between paper and water, a subject of major importance for each conservator working with paper artifacts and different cellulose-based mostly materials. The work integrates data from the different disciplines of paper engineering, conservation science and conservation follow, and will function a textbook in a rapidly increasing occupation that has nearly no customized schooling literature.

Water is present when paper is made. It contributes to its deterioration and serves many important capabilities when deteriorated paper is handled by conservators. Drawing on paper industry and science research, Paper and Water examines the connection between paper and water. Throughout the guide, theoretical data regarding basic ideas that underlie the interplay of paper and water is presented in close affiliation with sensible info that informs the reader about the mechanisms that govern conservation procedures.

Matters discussed in the guide include: construction and properties of dry and wet paper; construction and properties of water; paper manufacturing steps related to the interplay between paper and water; affect of humid local weather situations on the deterioration of paper; ideas of aqueous deacidification; preparation and use of aqueous options, strategies of treating paper with water, as well as elements influencing their effectiveness; mechanisms of drying paper throughout its manufacturing; methods of drying paper in conservation; historical and ethical dimensions of aqueous therapy in paper conservation.

Taking its inspiration from undergraduate and graduate science training textbooks, and examined broadly via use in workshops with college students and specialist professionals in each Europe and USA, this e book is extremely illustrated to make studying an efficient and pleasurable experience. Visual materials exclusively produced for this publication consists of video animations, laboratory videos, and key references which seem on an accompanying DVD. Each chapter within the ebook and video on the DVD are linked, however may operate independently.

A number of authors contributed to the manuscript, among them Dr Vincent Daniels, Research Fellow, Royal Faculty of Artwork, London; Professor D Steven Keller, Associate Professor, Paper Science and Engineering, SUNY-College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York; Joanna Kosek MA, Performing Head, Western Pictorial Artwork, The British Museum, London; Dr Anthony W. Smith, Camberwell School of Artwork, London; and Professor Paul Whitmore, Director, Analysis Middle on the Supplies of the Artist and Conservator, Carnegie Mellon College Pittsburgh, PA. Movies and Animations are by Professor Alfred Vendl, and Stefan Fischer, Technical Chemistry – Science Visualisation, Institute for Art and Expertise on the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

The challenge and the e-book are financially supported by the Leonardo da Vinci Programme, European Union, and by a prestigious Conservation Publication Grant of the H. Samuel Kress Basis offered by the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. ‘Paper and Water’ is supported internationally by the Institute for Paper Conservation (IPC); the International Centre for the Research of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM); and International Affiliation of Ebook and Paper Conservators (IADA).

Paper and Water: A Guide for Conservators (Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology)

Gerhard Banik (Author), Irene Bruckle (Author)

576 pages

Routledge; Har/DVD edition (March 31, 2011)

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