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The book includes detection and determination of the components of paper, with particular attention gicen to nonfibrous additives. Qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis are given as a guide and reference for analysts concerned with the composition, source, properties, and defects in paper and paperboard. Applications of recently developed techniques are emphasized, and comprehensive but concise introductory material is included.

The tremendous interest in old European prints has found collectors, dealers and students inadequately provided with accessible, comprehensive reference material, and Mr. Wilder's book makes good on this deficiency in an eminently readable but essentially a practical fashion.

Willem de Kooning a quintessential abstract expressionist and one of the most influential painters of the 20th century forged an original style by manipulating both conventional and non-art materials in extreme ways. Whether he was coarsening the texture of alkyd paint with quartz and ground glass, applying a flurry of oil paints, cooking oil and water onto his canvases, or mixing plaster of Paris into retail house paint, de Kooning used his doctored paints to convey a unique artistic vision.
This meticulously researched book is the first systematic study of de Koonings creative process that applies comprehensive scientific examination of the artists pigments, binders, and supports to art historical interpretations.
Anyone interested in modern art history, from curators to conservators, students to practicing artists, will find in these pages new insights into the way an artist can achieve radical changes in style

Although oil remains an important binding medium in artists' paints, today's synthetic resins are being used with increasing frequency. This was true during much of the twentieth century, when artists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jackson Pollock, and Pablo Picasso used commercial orindustrial paints based on synthetic resins. The growing popularity of synthetic resin materials carries important implications for the conservation, preservation, and treatment of modern art.This volume outlines the techniques that are currently employed to analyze the synthetic resins used in modern painting materials, such as pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, Fourier Transform infrared spectroscopy, and direct temperature-resolved mass spectrometry. For each technique,results are given for standard samples of the principal classes of synthetic binding media, various pigments and extenders, tube paint formulations, and microscopic paint fragments taken from actual works of art.Primarily intended for… Read More

The Korean ceramics featured in this catalog spanned from the unglazed earthenware over the earliest kingdoms to the elegant celadon and stonewere Pottery of the Goryeo dynasty to the graceful porcelains and buncheong ware of the Joseon Dynasty. As cultural artifacts they symbolize the spirit of the times in which they were created as part of a modern private collection they are a meaningful reflection of self identity.

Includes information about the pigment vehicle and awareness of permanency in artist palettes. Looks at modern approaches to permanency. New pigments. Factors that affect color change. Descriptions of standard methods of testing for permanency and summary data for a variety of pigments

This book is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise on the subject but is designed to serve the purpose of a laboratory textbook for the use of students in the chemical laboratories of technical schools and of colleges where technical subjects connected with this branch of higher organic chemistry are taught it is also hoped that matter will be found in it of use to chemists employed in works dealing with these synthetic dyestuffs