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Review by Amber Kerr
Current Technical Challenges in the Conservation of Paintings
Edited by Angelina Barros D’Sa, Lizze Bone, Rhiannon Clarricoates, Helen Dowding
London: Archetype publications, Ltd., 2015
136 pages / £32.50 / Paperback
ISBN: 9781909492318
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CONSERVATION IN CONTEXT: A TALE OF TWO VILLAS
Review by Graham Voce
Buried by Vesuvius – the Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum
Edited by Kenneth Lapatin
Los Angeles: J Paul Getty Museum, 2019
276 pages / $65.00 / Hardcover
ISBN 978-1-60606-592-1
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Reviewed by Leah Humenuck
The Medieval Girdle Book
By Margit J. Smith
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017
384 pages / $95.00 / Hardcover
ISBN: 1584563680
ISBN: 9781584563686
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Review by Kloe Rumsey
Magnetic Mounting Systems for Museums and Cultural Institutions
By Gwen Spicer
Spicer Art Books, Delaware, USA (2019)
402 pages / Softcover / $120 (USD)
ISBN: 978-0-578-46017-8
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Review by Louise Lawson
Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery and retrieval
Edited by Allan Foster and Pauline Rafferty
Facet Publishing, July 2016
256 pages / £59.95 / Paperback
ISBN:978-1-85604-941-2 (Paperback)
http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=049412#.XLipEi-B3EY
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Review by Graham Voce
Historic Cities: Issues in Urban Conservation (Readings in Conservation)
Edited by Jeff Cody and Francesco Siravo
Getty Conservation Institute, USA, July 2019 (US) August 2019 (UK)
632 Pages / 114 colour & 60 black and white illustrations / Paperback
ISBN 978-1-60606-593-8
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Review by Julian Bickersteth
Cultural Heritage Marketing: A Relationship Marketing Approach to
Conservation Services
By Izabella Parowicz
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
158 Pages / 44,02 € eBook / 57,19 € Hardcover
ISBN 978-3-030-00287-9 (eBook)
ISBN 978-3-030-00286-2 (Hardcover)
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Review by Sante Guido
Il restauro del crocifisso ligneo di Donatello nella chiesa dei Servi di Padova
Edited by Elisabetta Francescutti in collaboration with Francesca Meneghetti
Centro Studi Antoniani, Italy, 2016
366 pages / 190 color photographs / 42,00€ / Paperback
ISBN-10: 889590804X / ISBN-13: 978-8895908045
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Reviews by Daniela Sauer
For the June 2019 issue of News in Conservation, the ICCROM Library is contributing a list of new acquisitions and summaries of a selected group of top titles hand-picked by the librarian. We look forward to this being a regular quarterly inclusion in News in Conservation going forward.
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Review by Christian Scheidemann
Sam Francis: The Artist’s Materials
By Debra Burchett-Lere and Aneta Zebala
The Getty Conservation Institute
Los Angeles, 2019
150 pages / USD $ 40.00 / Paperback
ISBN 9781606065839
