Showing papers on "Mural published in 1990"

African American Art and Artists

Abstract: Foreword Introduction to the Revised and Expanded Edition Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1619-1865: CULTURAL DEPRIVATION AND SLAVERY The Craft Heritage as an Economic Resource The Emergence of Professional Artists Freemen and the Abolitionist Movement Discrimination and the Problem of Patronage 1865-1920: EMANCIPATION AND CULTURAL DILEMMA The First Major Landscape Painter The Diverse Quests for Professional Status American Reliance on the European Artistic Tradition 192-1940: NEW AMERICANISM AND ETHNIC IDENTITY The Spread of the Harlem Movement The Self-Taught Individualists 1940-1960: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL AWARENESS Mural Art as Cultural and Social Commentary The WPA and Its Legacy 1960-1990: POLITICAL AND CULTURAL AWARENESS Painting The Flag: A Symbol of Repression Reality and the Dream Symbolism: Geometric, Organic, and Figurative Mixed-Media Assemblages Sculpture: Additive or Direct Art/Craft Drawing Graphic Processes: Economical and Aesthetic Approaches to Communication Performances/Installations/Environments 1990-2002: FROM PAINTING TO TECHNOLOGY: ART BEFORE AND INTO THE NEW MILLENNIUM Painting Sculpture Installation Art Mixed-Media Art Digital/Computer Art Conclusion Bibliography Index

Reconversion of altered lead pigments in alpine mural paintings

Abstract: Techniques of mural painting in middle and northern Europe differ from those of the classic type of Italian fresco. After a brief comparison of documentary evidence with actual alterations in colou...

Roadside Settlements in Lowland Roman Britain: A Gazetteer and Study of Their Origins, Growth and Decline, Property Boundaries and Cemeteries@@@Extra-Mural Areas of Romano-British Towns

Abstract: A study of the origin of these settlements, their growth and decline, property boundaries, and cemeteries, with a large and detailed gazetteer.

Looking at Leonardo's Last Supper

Abstract: Leonardo's experimental mural painting of the Last Supper has required regular attention from restorers during the whole of the course of its history. The recent campaign, which involves a rigorous stripping of the mural to what are considered to be the remaining fragments of Leonardo's original paint, is the most radically archaeological of the many attempts at restoration/conservation. This campaign raises, in the sharpest manner, questions about the assumptions, aesthetic and scientific, which underpin present practices, and their status with respect to previous approaches. It is argued that present techniques, for all their gloss of scientific objectivity, are based upon a questionable series of values and presumptions about works of art and how one looks at works of art. In this respect, it is suggested that the recent campaign is no less rooted in the values of the period than the past campaigns which are now so brusquely dismissed. It is argued that the aesthetic, perceptual, scientific, and institutional bases for the procedures need more rigorous scrutiny.

9th Triennial Meeting, Dresden, German Democratic Republic, 26-31 August 1990 : preprints

Abstract: These papers provide a valuable overall picture of how conservation is presently evolving. 160 articles (24 French and 134 English) are divided into 25 subject areas, including the Scientific Examination of Works of Art, the Theory and History of Restoration, Care of Works of Art in Transport, and Mural Paintings and Mosaics. The authors are from major conservation institutions, museums, and universities from all over the world.