Proceedings of the Objects Specialty Group Session
41st Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana
The Contemporary in Conservation
May 29- June 1, 2013
Compiled by Lara Kaplan, Program Chair, with Emily Hamilton and Kari Dodson
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Postprints abstracts and articles
- Program Chair’s Foreword
Lara Kaplan
- Bon appétit? Plastics in Julia Child’s kitchen
Mary Coughlin
- Three decades later: A status report on the silver lacquering program at Winterthur
Bruno Pouliot, Jennifer Mass, Catherine Matsen, William Donnelly, Kaitlin Andrews, and Margaret Bearden
- Rethinking the monumental: A creative approach to the preservation of a landmark Tony Smith outdoor sculpture
John Steele and Abigail Mack
- Metal health and weld being: Conservation strategies for a collection of sculpture by John Chamberlain
Shelley M. Smith and Catherine Williams
- Three-Way Plug three ways: Conservation treatments of three editions of Claes Oldenburg’s COR-TEN steel and bronze Giant Three-Way Plug
Mark Erdmann, Adam Jenkins, Robert Marti, and Marianne Russell Marti
- Living artists and the conservation of contemporary objects: Preserving an aesthetic of decay
John T. Campbell
- Intersecting conservation approaches to ethnographic and contemporary art: Ephemeral art at the National Museum of African Art
Stephanie E. Hornbeck
- Restoring the immaterial: Using new media to communicate context
Sarah Barack and Beth Edelstein
Unpublished presentation abstracts
- Beyond the visible: Macro and micro analytical forensic imaging for the documentation and investigation of archaeological objects
Alexis North and Dr. Ioanna Kakoulli
Tips Session
- A comparison of fumed silica and precipitated silica as matting agents for acrylic paint
Elizabeth La Duc and Dr. Aaron Shugar
- Hot melt cutting of Stabiltex with a soldering iron
Ayesha Fuentes and Geneva Griswold
- Ultraviolet marking of beadwork restorations
Linda Roundhill
- Loss compensation of leather and animal skins
Erin A. Anderson, Steven O’Banion, and Marlene Yandrisevits
- A new barrier coating to reduce tarnish on silver art
Glenn Gates, Eric Breitung, Terry Drayman-Weisser, Amy Marquardt, and Raymond Phaneuf