Paul Taylor: Condition: The Ageing of Art

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Cover: 9781907372797 | Condition: The Ageing of Art | Paul Taylor | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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The paintings we see today in museums, galleries, churches and temples are often much altered by the centuries. Pictures can split, rot, be eaten by woodworm, warp, blister, crack, cup, flake, darken, blanch, discolor, become too translucent and disappear under a centuries-old varnish; and they can also suffer from the efforts of their owners to rectify these situations: they might be transferred, relined, ironed, abraded or repainted. Anyone writing about a work of art needs to establish at the outset how much it has changed since it was first made. This act of understanding is far from easy. We need to develop a knowledge of the physical and chemical processes which have brought paintings to their current state, in the hope that we can imagine their reversal. And we have to look as much as we can, at a wide variety of paintings, so we can learn to distinguish those in a worse or better state of preservation; we have to try to understand what it is about a picture that differentiates good and bad condition. Theories of art history have been built on works which are little more than repaint and decay, and the beginner needs to be warned about the many pitfalls dug by time for the unwary. A great deal has been written about conservation and restoration, but this is the first book to approach the issue from the viewer's standpoint, and to discuss changes in appearance that affect our understanding and appreciation of works of art. This book is highly illustrated so as to make its points extremely clear. It should appeal to anyone with an interest in art.

Über den Autor

Paul Taylor is curator of the photographic collection at the Warburg Institute, University of London, and editor of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. He has written numerous articles and contributed to many books; he is the author of Dutch Flower Painting 1600-1720 (1995) and the editor of Pictorial Composition from Medieval to Modern Art (2000), The Iconography of Cylinder Seals (2006); Iconography without Texts (2008); and, most recently, Meditations on a Heritage: Papers on the Work and Legacy of Sir Ernst Gombrich (2014), also published by Paul Holberton publishing.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Allgemeine Kunst
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	264
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781907372797
ISBN-10:	1907372792
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Taylor, Paul
Hersteller:	Paul Holberton Publishing
Maße:	243 x 172 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul Taylor
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.03.2015
Gewicht:	0,841 kg

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