Book Reviews

Book cover for What is Black Art? Image courtesy of Penguin Books LTD

Book Review: What is Black Art?

Submitted by sharragrow on Mon, 25/03/2024 - 17:11

Recognizing significant gaps in her art history education and the lack of diversity in British art exhibitions in the 1990s, Alice Correia began...

Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile and Repair (image courtesy of publisher)

Book Review: "Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile and Repair"

Submitted by sharragrow on Thu, 29/02/2024 - 18:22

According to Lowinger, the concept of "dwell time" in conservation signifies a chemical activity, allowing an ample period for the chemical processes...

Buried machinery in barn lot in Dallas, South Dakota, United States during the Dust Bowl, an agricultural, ecological, and economic disaster in the Great Plains region of North America in 1936. Sourced from United States Department of Agriculture, Image Number: 00di0971/Wikimedia Commons. Image in the Public Domain.

Book Review: A Green New Deal for Archives

Submitted by sharragrow on Fri, 19/01/2024 - 21:18

A Green New Deal for Archives is a timely publication that raises awareness on two critical concerns universally affecting archives – climate change...

Cover image of ‘Tales of the Unexpected’ courtesy of the publisher, Archetype.

Book Review: Tales of the Unexpected’ in Paintings Conservation

Submitted by sharragrow on Sat, 07/10/2023 - 16:31

Art conservation is full of surprising discoveries that sometimes turn out to be the greatest blisses in the profession...

Cultural Heritage and the Future. Book cover, courtesy of Routledge.

Book Review: Cultural Heritage and the Future

Submitted by sharragrow on Mon, 20/03/2023 - 16:31

This book is an edited compilation of papers organised for a 2012 conference and developed through subsequent discussions. Caitlin DeSilvey’s chapter...

Practical Considerations for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, book cover. Courtesy of Routledge.

Book Review: Practical Considerations for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural...

Submitted by sharragrow on Fri, 10/03/2023 - 16:31

I have read about 500 publications about intangible cultural heritage (ICH), and this book presents highly complex problems and challenges in a...

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Book review: Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in...

Submitted by sharragrow on Mon, 30/01/2023 - 16:31

Acknowledging the importance of conserving and interpreting bio-based art is a key outcome from the Living Matter conference proceedings. This...

Integrated Pest Management for Collections book cover, provided by Archetype.

Book review: Integrated Pest Management for Collections

Submitted by sharragrow on Thu, 26/01/2023 - 16:31

2021: A Pest Odyssey, The Next Generation is informative and interesting for the specialist, neophyte and jobbing conservator carrying out IPM on his...

Book cover for Migrants: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Border. Image provided by Archetype Books.

Book Review: Migrants: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders

Submitted by sharragrow on Mon, 14/11/2022 - 16:31

The idea of crossing borders is the most compelling focus of this book. In the past, the art world has mainly concentrated on the outward...

Image of the book cover. Image by Bianca Gonçalves

Book Review: Greener Solvents In Conservation

Submitted by sharragrow on Fri, 13/05/2022 - 16:31

"Green does not mean new". Did you know you may already have a greener solution in your cupboard? SiC's Greener Solvents handbook provides step-by...

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