Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
35th Annual Meeting in Richmond, Virginia
April 19 and 20, 2007
Compiled by Virginia Greene, Patricia Griffin, and Christine Del Re
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Postprints abstracts and articles
- Program Chair’s Foreword
Ann Boulton
- Object lessons: The politics of preservation and museum building in the early 20th century
Sanchita Balachandran
- From delicious to not quite right: Subtleties in discerning the authenticity of African art
Stephen Mellor
- Refining the database for white marbles: Isotope analysis of 18th century marble busts by Jean-Antoine Houdon
Katherine A. Holbrow
- From fake to fabulous: Redeeming fakes at the Walters Art Museum
Terry Drayman-Weisser
- Altered states: Henri Matisse’s sculpture Aurora
Ann Boulton
- “Discovering” a Medieval candlestick in the collection of the Walters Art Museum
Julie A. Lauffenburger
- Faking pre-Columbian artifacts
Catherine Sease
- Fabricating the body: The anatomical machines of the Prince of Sansevero
Lucia Dacome and Renata Peters
- 3D scanning of deer stones on the Mongolian steppe
Harriet F. (Rae) Beaubien and Basiliki Vicky Karas
- A new method for cleaning marble
Kory Berrett, Virginia Naude and Richard Wolbers
- Treatment of a WPA era topographical map of the state of Louisiana
Shelley Reisman Paine, James Bernstein, Richard Wolbers and Mary Zimmerman
Unpublished presentation abstracts
- A plaster gladiator: Battered but still beautiful
Carol A. Grissom
- A progress report on the Oceanic Galleries Reinstallation Project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Amy Jones, Beth Edelstein, and Linsly Boyer
- Conservation and looted art: Issues concerning provenance and good title when conserving or restoring art
Lawrence M. Kaye
- Aquamanile (They’re so darn cute who wouldn’t want a copy?)
Julie Lauffenburger
- Heritage conservation as public diplomacy: The role of the Department of State in protecting archaeological and ethnological heritage around the world
Margaret G. H. MacLean
- Conservators, immigration and customs enforcement and the enforcement of heritage law
James McAndrew