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TRADITION AND INNOVATION: ADVANCES IN CONSERVATION
IIC Melbourne Congress 2000
The 18th International Congress of the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC) took place in Melbourne, Australia at the invitation of the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material (AICCM), from Tuesday 10 October through Saturday 14 October 2000.
This was the first IIC conference to be held in the southern hemisphere and its theme was a broad one, of interest to all our members. As we celebrated both the 50th anniversary of IIC's foundation and the new millennium, the authors have concentrated on how the experience of conservation past informs the ideas of conservation present and future, placing their intentions and conclusions firmly in the context of continually changing perspectives in conservation. The congress aimed to bring together conservators and restorers, whether in museums or in private practice, conservation scientists and historians, curators, collection managers, educators and students.
Papers published in the Proceedings
Giovanna Alessandrini, Lucia Toniolo & C. Colombo
Partially fluorinated acrylic copolymers as coatings for calcareous stone materials
Hubertus Ankersmit, Graham Noble, Laura Ridge, Diane Stirling, Norman Tennent & Simon Watts
The protection of silver collections from tarnishing
Jonathan Ashley-Smith
Developing professional uncertainty
Louise Bacon & Graham Martin
Out of Africa! Display case strategies — the theory and the reality
Nigel Blades, May Cassar, Tadj
Oreszczyn & Ben Croxford
Preventive conservation strategies for sustainable urban pollution control in museums
Lynn Brostoff, Tara Shedlosky & René de la Rie
External reflection study of copper-benzotriazole films on bronze in relation to pretreatments of coated outdoor bronzes
Aviva Burnstock & Raymond White
A preliminary assessment of the aging/degradation of
Ethomeen C-12 residues from solvent gel formulations and their potential for inducing changes in resinous paint media
James Coddington & Suzanne Siano
Infrared imaging of twentieth-century works of art
Vinod Daniel, Colin Pearson, Ivan Cole, Wayne Ganther & Steve King
Behaviour of museum buildings in tropical climates
René de la Rie, Suzanne Quillen Lomax, Michael Palmer, Lisha Deming Glinsman & Christopher Maines
An investigation of the photochemical stability of urea-aldehyde resin retouching paints. Removability tests and colour spectroscopy
Penelope Edmonds & Elizabeth Wild
New obligations: conservation policy and treatment
approaches for Aboriginal collections in Bunjilaka, the Aboriginal Centre,
Melbourne Museum
David Erhardt, Charles S. Tumosa & Marion F. Mecklenburg
Natural and accelerated thermal aging of oil paint films
Sheila Fairbrass
The conservation of a V2 rocket
Ann Galbally, Angela Kerry & Robyn Sloggett
Art conservation and art fraud. Dissecting the thin blue line
Walter Gneisinger & David Watkinson
Innovative uses for aqueous foams in conservation practice
Martina Griesser, Andrea Denker, Helga Musner & Karl Hugo Maier
Non-destructive investigation of paint layer sequences
Jane Henderson & Diane Dollery
Growing pains — the development of a conservation profession in the UK
Stephen Koob
New techniques for the repair and restoration of ancient glass
Alexandra Kosinova & Charlotte Hubbard
The Boppard Altarpiece: research on original techniques and recent conservation
Caroline Kyi & Robert Drew
Bioremediation of soluble nylon. Investigations into genetic information and enzymatic activities associated with the utilization of soluble nylon as a nutrient substrate
John Larson, Martin Cooper & Samantha Sportun
Developments in the application of laser technology for conservation
Mark Leonard, Jill Whitten, Robert Gamblin & René de la Rie
Development of a new material for retouching
Alison Lister
Indeterminate problems: exploring the potential of
problem-based learning in conservation education
Helen Lloyd & Sarah Staniforth
Preventive conservation and 'A Madness to Gaze at Trifles'. A sustainable future for historic houses
Ian MacLeod & Jeffrey Beng
The contribution of alloy composition to the fate of foundered vessels
Eric Miller, Nicholas Lee, Kenneth Uprichard & Vincent Daniels
The examination and conservation of the Rosetta Stone at the British Museum
Rachel Mustalish
Optical brighteners. History and technology
Hazel Newey
Conservation and the preservation of scientific and industrial collections
Elke Oberthaler & Martina Griesser
Titian's 'Madonna with the Cherries' — a conservation history reconsidered
Ticca Ogilvie, Jim Carter & Richard Evershed
Spices in the display environment
Boris Pretzel
Determining the colour fastness of the Bullerswood carpet
Charles Rhyne
Changing approaches to the conservation of northwest coast totem poles
Melanie Rolfe, Lyndsey Morgan & Tom Learner
Saving the New Generation for the next generation. Traditional approaches and radical solutions in the conservation of large painted sculpture of the 1960s
Amber Xavier-Rowe, David Imison, Barry Knight & David Pinniger
Using heat to kill museum insect pests — is it practical and safe
Sharon Rutledge, Bruce Banks, Virgil Chichernea & Christy Haytas
Cleaning of fire damaged watercolor and textiles using atomic oxygen
David Saunders, Andreas Burmester, John Cupitt & Lars Raffelt
Recent applications of digital imaging in painting conservation. Transportation, colour change and infrared reflectographic studies
Mikkel Scharff
Insight into early nineteenth-century painting conservation in Denmark
Mille Stein, Richard Francen, Verner Thomsen & Lis Sejr Eriksen
To regild or not. Evaluation of an inter-Scandinavian restoration project
Dusan Stulik, Valerie Dorge, Herant Khanjian, Narayan Khandekar, Alberto Tagle, David Miller, Richard Wolbers & Janice Carlson
Surface cleaning. Quantitative study of gel residue on cleaned paint surfaces
Andrew Thorn
Titanium dioxide. A catalyst for deterioration mechanisms in the third millennium
Paul Whitmore, Catherine Bailie & Sandra Connors
Micro-fading tests to predict the result of exhibition. Progress and prospects
Christina Young & Roger Hibberd
The role of canvas attachments in the strain distribution and degradation of easel paintings
Sarah Staniforth
The Forbes Lecture (not published in the proceedings):
Conservation: Significance, Relevance and Sustainability. pdf
Posters (not published)
Roberto Bellucci & Cecilia Frosinini
Specific development and refinement for the cleaning of the 'lost' Intercession Polyptych by Gentila da Fabriano
Julian Bickersteth
Conservation of the Hall of Memory glass tile mosaic, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Jon Braenne
New light on traditional paint
Stephania Chlouveraki
Traditional techniques of site consolidation: a review of materials and methods used on central and east Crete during the last 30 years
C. Colombo, L. Toniolo & U. Casellato
Polychrome terracotta statues of the seventeenth century: microscopic and spectroscopic characterization
Sabine Cotte
From one restoration to another: travelling within a conservator's studio
Luciana da Silveira
Mixed media, multicultural and multiple challenges: the treatment of folk pageant costumes from northeastern Brazil
Katherine Eremin, Stuart Adams & Jim Tate
Improved monitoring of dust deposition in museums
Anke Freund & Gerhard Eggert
Why not to bleach ivory with ammoniacal hydrogen peroxide
Roy Garner
A novel technique for cleaning natural history and ethnographic artifacts
Kathryn Gill
A 1950s upholstered chair: combining the conventional and the innovative in both manufacture and conservation
Mark Gittins, Giovanna Martelotti, Sybille Nerger & Elio Paparatti
The conservation of Roman wall decoration in Nero's Golden House, Rome
Teresa Heady
Assessment of conservation methods old, new and indigenous applied to thangkas
Roger Hibberd, Debra Carr & Christina Young
The failure mechanisms of model nineteenth-century primed canvases
Janet Hughes, Vinod Daniel, Colin Pearson & Ivan Cole
Environmental factors affecting deterioration of historic buildings in Antarctica – a case study
Nobuyuki Kamba
Toward standardization of a high-performance display case
Valerie Kaufmann
Wax models, portraits and sculptures – problems encountered and practical solutions devised
Kimio Kawaguchi & Masahiko Tsukada
Seismic isolation and conservation work on Rodin's 'The Gates of Hell'
Narayan Khandekar & Michael Schilling
A technical comparison of two versions of the portrait of Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse by Joshua Reynolds
Steffen Laue, Claudia Sommer, Kathe Klappenbach &
Jorg Kirschstein
Grottos in the Royal Gardens of Potsdam, Germany: the 'Grottensaal' of the New Palace and the grotto in the 'New Garden' – decoration and conservation
Paula Mills & Rose Kerr
A study of ruby-pink enamels on Chinese porcelain, with a comparison of Chinese pink glass and European pink enamels on ceramics
Sadatoshi Miura
Development of preventive measures against earthquake: Japanese experiences
Ichiro Nagasawa, W.T. Chase, Tsukasa Shida, Naoki
Fujita & Masako Koyano
Conservation of Japanese Buddhist polychrome sculpture
Tadateru Nishiura, Masaya Masui & Takao Ebisawa
New conservation method for stone remains applying traditional mud-wall technique – conservation treatment of remains at Ranigat site, Gandhara, Pakistan
Jenny Potter, David Singleton & Helen Tayler
A new versatile support system for Egyptian cartonnage
Mark Sandy & Louise Bacon
Investigation into the degradation of Raphia palm leaf material used in ethnographic objects
T.J.K. Strang, J. Mitchell, A. Pearce & C. Pearson
Low-cost heating methods for insect pest control
G.J. Troup, D.R. Hutton, R. Sloggett, F. Lotti, M. Picollo & A. Casini
EPR spectroscopy can help with pigment provenance
David Wise, Vincent Otieno-Alego & Ingrid Ford
The identification of yellow dyes using Raman micro-spectroscopy