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Plastics in Historic House Museums: Conservation Treatment Case Studies at Gropius House<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Megan Creamer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contemporary Art Review, Volume 1 (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Los Pl\u00e1sticos en las Casas-Museo Hist\u00f3ricas: Casos de Estudio sobre Tratamientos de Conservaci\u00f3n en la Casa Gropius<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Megan Creamer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contemporary Art Review, Volumen 1 (2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PVC, polyvinyl chloride, cleaning, synthetic, documentation, historic house museums<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This paper documents the conservation of two plastic objects from the historic property of Gropius House: a pair of flexible polyvinyl chloride (PVC) curtains and a woven, synthetic fiber dress. The context of historic house museums is an understudied area of plastics conservation and one where conditions of long-term open display of these materials in a historic building can directly contradict currently understood best practices for preservation. Many plastic objects, in a variety of compositions, have been maintained on open display for decades in historic house museums with widely varying results in condition and stability. By studying the impacts of conservation treatments and environmental conditions on these collections and materials, conservators have an opportunity to inform future research and understanding. Through two case study objects, this paper discusses the conditions of display and treatment, limitations of small conservation labs, and issues of ethics that may stem from conservation decisions regarding plastic material culture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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PVC, cloruro de polivinilo, limpieza, sint\u00e9tico, documentaci\u00f3n, casas-museo hist\u00f3ricas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Este art\u00edculo documenta la conservaci\u00f3n de dos objetos de pl\u00e1stico de la hist\u00f3rica Casa Gropius: un par de cortinas de cloruro de polivinilo flexible (PVC) y un vestido tejido en fibra sint\u00e9tica. El contexto de las casas-museo hist\u00f3ricas es un \u00e1mbito poco estudiado en la conservaci\u00f3n de pl\u00e1sticos. Las condiciones de exposici\u00f3n de estos materiales en abierto y de larga duraci\u00f3n en un edificio hist\u00f3rico, contradicen directamente con lo que actualmente se consideran buenas pr\u00e1cticas de conservaci\u00f3n. Muchos objetos de pl\u00e1stico, de diversas composiciones, han sido expuestos durante d\u00e9cadas en casas-museo ofreciendo resultados muy diversos en cuanto a su estado de conservaci\u00f3n y su estabilidad. Gracias al estudio de c\u00f3mo han repercutido las condiciones ambientales y los tratamientos de conservaci\u00f3n en estas colecciones y materiales, se brinda a los conservadores la oportunidad de contribuir a la investigaci\u00f3n y comprensi\u00f3n futuras. A trav\u00e9s de dos casos de estudio, este art\u00edculo analiza las condiciones de exposici\u00f3n y tratamiento, las limitaciones de los peque\u00f1os laboratorios de conservaci\u00f3n y las cuestiones \u00e9ticas que pueden derivarse de las decisiones de conservaci\u00f3n relativas a la cultura material pl\u00e1stica.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Creamer, Megan. 2022. \u201cPlastics in Historic House Museums: Conservation Treatment Case Studies at Gropius House \/ Los Pl\u00e1sticos en las Casas-Museo Hist\u00f3ricas: Casos de Estudio sobre Tratamientos de Conservaci\u00f3n en la Casa Gropius.\u201d In Contemporary Art Review<\/em>, Vol. 1. Edited by Delia M\u00fcller-W\u00fcsten, Martha Singer. Washington, DC: AIC. 38\u201355.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plastics in Historic House Museums: Conservation Treatment Case Studies at Gropius House Megan Creamer Contemporary Art Review, Volume 1 (2021) Los Pl\u00e1sticos en las Casas-Museo Hist\u00f3ricas: Casos de Estudio sobre Tratamientos de Conservaci\u00f3n en la Casa Gropius Megan Creamer Contemporary Art Review, Volumen 1 (2021) Keywords PVC, polyvinyl chloride, cleaning, synthetic, documentation, historic house museums […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":182,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-161","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/contemporaryartreview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}