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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fowler, Caroline O., editor, contributor.

Nagel, Alexander, editor, writer of introduction.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, organizer.

Series:

Clark studies in the visual arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Conservation and restoration.

Art.

Physical Description:

231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Distribution:

New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press

Place of Publication:

Williamstown, Massachusetts : Clark Art Institute, [2022]

Summary:

"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. Scholars from around the world discuss topics including the conservation of global painting practices, cold storage and digitization, conservation within institutions, and the decolonization of art conservation. The authors seek to broaden the scope of conservation practice and challenge the boundaries that set it apart from art history and art making. They thoughtfully consider the implications of conservation beyond museum walls. This volume in the esteemed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts maintains the series's tradition of providing a nuanced reckoning with vital themes in the field"-- Back cover.

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.

Notes:

"This publication was conceived by the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute. A related conference, titled Conservation/Making/Art/History, was held April 8-9, 2021 at the Clark"-- Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781935998556

1935998552

9780300266948

0300266944

OCLC:

1305435978

Publisher Number:

99994150028