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Museum Management Books & Ephemera
Light: Its Interaction with Art and Antiquities
by Brill, Thomas B
New York / London: Plenum Press / Kluwer Academic, 1980. limited facsimile edition. Softcover. VG- (Small bookplate of previous owner; a few instances of yellow or pink highlighting; otherwise crisp and clean.). BW wraps, 287 pp., charts, graphs. "Concerns the nature of light, its properties, and its good and bad effects on materials. The 'good ' effects of light are considered to be those that produce color and the desired appearance in works of art. 'Bad' effects are those that result in...
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£142.87
Risk Assessment for Object Conservation
by Ashley-Smith, Jonathan
Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999. Softcover. VG (small bookplate of previous owner). Pictorial wraps, 358 pp., charts, graphs. "Explains the mechanisms of deterioration of museum artifacts, quantifying the probability that damage will occur and estimating the rate of progress when it does. The principles outlined and the information provided form a foundation for cost-benefit analysis of conservation proposals." (back cover).
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£78.37
STRENGTHENING THE BOND: SCIENCE AND TEXTILES : Preprints
by Whelan, Virginia
Philadelphia: NORTH AMERICAN TEXTILE CONSERVATION CONFERENCE 2002, 2002. Softcover. NF; art museum staff member's stylish ownership stamp inside front cover. Red/grey/bluewraps with red/blue lettering. v + 168 pp. with bw illustrations and charts throughout. Volume 3 of The North American Textile Conservation Conference, issued to attendees of the conference held April 5 & 6 2002 at Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Winterthur, Delaware....
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£40.82
A Museum Guide to Copyright and Trademark
by Shapiro, Michael S. et al
Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1999. Softcover. VG- (Slightly scuffed on front cover; gold has faded along some cover edges; interior is clean.). Gold and blue wraps, 226 pp., no illus. "Designed to give museum professionals a clearer understanding of the complex intellectual property issues embedded in every aspect of museum practice. Intended as a guide to informed decision making, it outlines a legal framework for understanding copyright and trademark principles -- the two areas...
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£28.57
The Museum Visit: Virtual Reality and the Gallery - Proceedings of the Symposium held on 3 November 2000 at The National Gallery of Ireland
by Bourke, Marie (Editor)
Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 2001. Softcover. Fine contents; VG covers (small bumps to head/tail of spine). Art museum ex-lib. bar code on back cover and blind stamp on title page. No other marks.. Bw and color-illus. wraps, stapled, with red/yellow lettering. Tangerine back cover. 60 pp. with several bw images. Includes 9 different presentations/essays by different museum experts on teaching the public about art in museums.
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£28.57
MJ - Manifesta Journal: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship
by Manifesta
Milano: Silvana, 2008. Softcover. VG. Neon Green French Tab Wraps. 399 pages : illustrations. Repr. of 3 issues of Manifesta journal, on the occasion of the 7th edition of Manifesta, Biennale europea di arte contemporanea, Fortezza (Bolzano), Bolzano, Trento, Rovereto (Trento), 2008./ Includes bibliographical references. Includes: the revenge of the white cube?; MJ - Manifesta Journal no. 1; MJ - Manifesta Journal no. 2; MJ - Manifesta Journal no. 3; MJ - Manifesta Journal. N°2, Winter 2003 / Spring...
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£40.82
The Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging : a revised and expanded version of Robert G. Chenall's system for classifying man-made objects
by Blackaby, James R.; Greeno, Patricia
Nashville, TN: AASLH Press, 1988. Hardcover. VG, ex-library. Has label in spine, bookplate. Pages clean. Blue leather with gilt lettering and artwork. 1 volume (various pagings). Rev. and expanded ed. of: Nomenclature for museum cataloging / Robert G. Chenhall. 1978./ Includes bibliographical references. Contents: Preface -- Looking at Nomenclature -- Using Nomenclature -- Nomenclature classifications defined -- Hierarchical list of preferred terms -- Alphabetical list of preferred terms -- Selected...
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Cellulose nitrate in conservation
by Selwitz, Charles
Marina del Rey: The Getty Research Institute, 1988. Softcover. VG- (Contents Fine; very light cover wear; lovely, small, personal bookplate inside front cover). Grey/slate wraps. 68 pp. with charts and chemical compound diagrams. Volume 2 in The Getty Research Institute's Research in Conservation series. Contents includes: The use of cellulose nitrate in art conservation -- The structural chemistry of commercial cellulose nitrate -- Causes of instability -- Cellulose nitrate stability at ambient...
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£24.47
Valor de Contemporaneidade: Conservacao e Restauro de Obras de Arte
by Elias, Isis Baldini
Sao Paulo: EDUC, 2016. Softcover. New (had to take off the shrink wrap to get the information for this description!). White wraps with color illlus. and red clay lettering. French flaps. 150 pp. with occasional illustrations. Text in Portuguese. The aim of this research is to confirm the thesis that the conservation and restoration of non-conventional artworks - those whose nature demands not only a knowledge of the degradation of materials but primarily a carefully articulated study of the ideas,...
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Towards a New Museum
by Newhouse, Victoria
New York: The Monacelli Press, 1998. Softcover. VG. Color-illustrated card wraps with yellow lettering/blue spine. French flaps. 288 pp. with color/bw illus. throughout. "In this unprecedented investigation, architectural historian Victoria Newhouse challenges many hitherto accepted premises of museum design. She demonstrates that new museums - with a social function equal in importance to that of the 19th-century opera house - are often stil based on old concepts that no longer apply to contemporary...
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£16.33
Peabody Museum of Salem Annual Report 1983
Salem, MA: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1983. Paperback. VG. Clean and tight.. Beige stapled wraps with dark green illustration and lettering. 45 pp. 11 BW plates. An annual report of the museum, including its exhibits, lists of members, contributions, staff, the education department, etc.
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£24.47
The Future of Aesthetics: A Symposium on Possible Ways of Advancing Theoretical Studies of the Arts and Related Types of Experience
by Munro, Thomas
Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942. Softcover. Good, clean, tight contents, but covers have faded and are chipped; one tape-repaired tear to front cover. Art museum ex-lib. copy with plate and two stickers. No marks in text.. Yellow stiff paper covers, stapled, with typed (typewriter) lettering. 111 pp. (typed on typewriter and copied) with no illus. Talks from The Carnegie Aesthetics Conferences held in New York (Biltmore Hotel, listed one place as December 1940 and another as December...
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£61.23
The New Museum Registration Methods
by Rebecca A. Buck [Editor]; Jean Allman Gilmore [Editor]
Washington: American Association of Museums, 1998. Softcover. VG. GLossy color illustrated glued wraps. 427 pp., some bw illustrations. Designed to provide the practical information needed by today's registrars and collections managers, as well as serve as a text for museum studies students. It reflexts the increased complexity of museums and of the registrar's role, not only in the integratin of computerization and conservation concerns into the text, but with the addition of articles about risk...
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£28.57
Airborne Pollutants in Museums, Galleries and Archives: Risk Assessment, Control Strategies, and Preservation Management
by Tetreault, Jean
Ottawa: Canadian Conservation Institute, 2003. Softcover. VG- (slight wear to wraps, museum label on spine & inside back cover, museum plate inside front cover, interior clean and tight). Brown and white ilustrated wraps with black lettering, 168 pp, bw and color illustrations. Contents: Key airborne pollutants -- Quantification of the exposure-effect relationship -- Risk assessment -- Control strategies -- Preservation management -- Monitoring.
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£40.82
The Artist and the Museum: The Report of the Third Woodstock Art Conference sponsored by Artists Equity Association and the Woodstock Artists Association
by Morse, John D. (editor)
New York: American Artists Group, Inc, 1950. Softcover. VG- (Light wear to extremities; Pencil markings to front cover and a few in the margins). Yellow wraps; 65 pp.; No illustrations. Includes addresses to the conference by Philip Evergood, Lloyd Goodrich, Edith Halpert, Rene D'Harnoncourt, Bartlett H. Hayes Jr., Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Andrew Ritchie, Francis Henry Taylor, and Hudson D. Walker.
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£16.33
Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha LX - Problemy okhrany, issledovaniya i restavratsii pamyatnikov kul'tury = Transactions of the State Hermitage Museum LX: Seminar on Architecture and Archaeology - The Problems of Conservation, Research and Restoration of Cultural Monuments
by Gordin, A.M. et al (Editors)
Saint Petersburg: Hermitage, 2012. Softcover. VG- (Clean, bright and tight but for a bit of light general shelf wear). Glossy apricot wraps with color image and black lettering. 418 pp. with color and bw images peppered throughout text. Text in Russian with brief summaries in English. Based upon the proceedings of two conferences held in January 2006 and in April 2007 on the occasion of the centenary birth of Academician Dmitry Likhachev. "The publication is devoted to topical issues of preservation of...
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Otchet 2000 = Annual report 2000 of the State Russian Museum
by State Russian Museum
Saint Petersburg, Russia: State Russian Museum, 2001. Palace Edition. Hardcover. VG, covers show some slight weat. Black pictorial board cover, no dj. 215 pages : illustrations (some color). Text in Russian; Russian and English in facing columns.
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£40.82
Infrared Spectroscopy in Conservation Science (Scientific Tools for Conservation)
by Derrick, Michele R. et al
Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 1999. Softcover. VG (small bookplate of previous owner). Gray and dusty rose wraps, 236 pp., BW illus., charts, graphs. "This text provides practical information on the use of IR spectroscopy for the analysis of museum objects, disseminating many sample handling and spectral acquisition techniques specifically applicable to their analysis, along with discussions of these techniques' potential problems. This book is meant to be a learning tool as well as an...
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£44.90
Otchet 2001 = Annual report 2001 of the State Russian Museum
by State Russian Museum
Saint Petersburg, Russia: State Russian Museum, 2002. Palace Edition. Hardcover. VG, covers show some slight weat. Black pictorial board cover, no dj. 271 pages : illustrations (some color). Text in Russian; Russian and English in facing columns.
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£40.82
Reviews in Conservation the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Number. 5, 2004
by Streeton, Noelle (Editor)
London: The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2004. Softcover. NF. Mauve wraps with bw lettering. 81 pp. with several bw illustrations. Articles on upholstery and furniture conservation, holographic methods for analysing panel paintings, water in porous building materials, and organiz materials in wall paintings.
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£24.47
Conservation Research 1996/1997 (Studies in the History of Art, 57; Monograph Series II)
by Merril, Ross, ed
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1997. Softcover. VG, clean, bright contents; unread; art museum ex-lib. with bookplate and card pocket; no other marks.. Pictorial wraps. 160 pp. Numerous bw and color plates. Six essays on conservation techniques, practices, and research: "Azo Pigments: Their History, Synthesis, Properties, and use in Artists' Materials;" "Recalling the Past: Evidence for the Orginal Construction of 'Madonna Enthroned with Saints and Angels' by Agnolo Gaddi;" "A Technical...
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£24.49
The Role of Government in Art Today : AFA Quarterly : Volume 1, Number 3, 1963
by Cogswell, Margaret (Editor)
New York: American Federation of Arts, 1963. Original, not a reprint. Softcover. Fine internally; very light shelf wear to covers.. White wraps with color and bw images. Black lettering. 5.5 x 9 inches. 94 pp. with bw photos of each article author. The contents of talks given at the AFA convention in Fort Worth/Dallas, May 22-24, 1963. With a foreword by President John F. Kenney and articles by August Heckscher, Henry Steele Commager, Rene d'Harnoncourt, Lloyd Goodrich, Charles Nagle, Joseph R....
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Your Museum, Your Future: 30th Anniversary Of Yokohama Museum of Art
by Yokohama Museum of Art
Yokohama, Japan: Yokohama Museum of Art, 2019. Hardcover. Near Fine (light creasing to spine edges. dustjacket as life scuffs, wear). neon salmon colored boards w/ black printing. 133 pgs w/ color illustrations. white & blue illustrated dustjacket. Text in English. Includes various essays and an overview of the museum's development and future.
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£36.74
Cultural Policy and Arts Administration
by Greyser, Stephen A. (Editor)
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Summer School Institute in Arts Administration, 1974. Softcover. VG, clean, tight contents; rubbing and a wrinkle to covers; art school ex-lib. with usual marks. Brown illus. wraps with yellow lettering. xi, 173 pp. with no illustrations. Papers delivered at international colloquiums of the Harvard Summer School Institute in Arts Administration, 1970-1972. A timeless volume discussing public aid for the arts, cultural policiy for an open society, the philosophy of arts...
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£24.47
