Proceedings of Objects and joint Objects + Archaeological Discussion Group Sessions
50th Annual Meeting – Los Angeles; 13-17 May 2022
Reflecting on the Past, Imagining the Future
Edited by Raina Chao, Kari Dodson, Aliza Taft, Julie Unruh, and Sarah Waddell, with LeeAnn Barnes Gordon, Program Chair
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Program Chair’s Foreword
LeeAnn Barnes Gordon
Postprints abstracts
Gravitational Investigation: The history and Future of Interventive Treatment on an Eva Hesse Sculpture
Stephanie Guidera and Anouk Verbeek
When Doing Nothing is Best for the Future: Analysis and Conservation of Louise Nevelson’s Dawn’s Image, Night
Kaela Nurmi and Fiona Beckett
Structural Stabilization of Beverly Pepper’s Weathering Steel Sculpture
Christine Haynes Mitchell, Derrin Compton, Emily Rezes, and Rowan Geiger
Glazed Ceramics Placed Outdoors: Conservation Issues and Lacuna Integration Techniques – An Ecological Choice for the Future with a Return to the Origins
Shirin Afra, Chiara Fornari, Chiara Gabbriellini, and Laura Speranza
Contested Care: Two problematic Monuments at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pilar Brooks, Mayuli Santiesteban Quesada, Linsly Boyer, and Evelyn (Eve) Mayberger
A Lesson in Balance and Adaptation: The Conservation of Alexander Calder’s Man-Eater with Pennants
Lynda Zycherman, Abigail Mack, Ellen Rand, Megan Randall, and Abed Haddad
“Clove of Garlic Crushed and Boiled”: Paul Manship’s patinas
Dorothy Cheng
Magnetic Holder with Pressure Adjustment: The New Solution in Conservation and Displaying Works of Art and Artifacts
Zuzanna Szozda
Collaborative Documentation to Inform Future Reprinting: Acquiring Additively Manufactured Objects at Tate and Science Museum, London
Vanessa Applebaum and Libby Ireland
Replication of Fine Surface Details through 3D Imaging and Printing: Current Capabilities and Limitations
Robert Price
Sustainable Solutions: Water-Based Consolidants for the Treatment of Low-Fired Ceramics
Céline Wachsmuth
The Effect of Conservation Agents on Nondestructive Dendrochronology
Ingrid Stelzner, Jörg Stelzner, Jorge Martinez-Garcia, Damian Gwerder, Sebastian Million, Oliver Nelle, and Philipp Schuetz
Building Back Better: A Collaborative Approach to Reconstructing an Egyptian Palace
Jessica Betz Abel, Julia Commander, Molly Gleeson, and Gillian Love
Conservation Initiative in African Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: The Impact of Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration on Collections of African Material Culture
Kathryn Brugioni Gabrielli, Casey Mallinckrodt, Ainslie Harrison, and Sheila Payaqui
Unpublished presentation abstracts
Repairing Tirs: Conservation Approaches to Niki de Saint Phalle’s Shooting Paintings
Joy Bloser and Mina Gaber
Preliminary research on plant extracts and waxes as corrosion inhibition coatings for iron alloy outdoor sculpture
Megan Creamer and Emy Kim
Resolving inherent vice in the conservation of a large scale contemporary architectural model
Mary Wilcop
Restoration of the Memorial to Col. Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment
Barbara Mangum
Changing approaches to monumental plaster casts at Weir Farm National Historic Site
Naomi Kroll Hassebroek
Layers and layers: An overview of treatment approaches for Egyptian cartonnage at the Penn Museum
Tessa de Alarcon and Alexis North