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Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage: Understanding and Characterization

Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage: Understanding and Characterization

Costa, Virginia

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ISBN10: 1606066056
ISBN13: 9781606066058
Publisher: Getty Pubn
Published: Jul 16 2019
Pages: 136
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.30 Width: 7.50 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

This practical guide provides artists, conservators, curators, and other heritage professionals with tools for understanding, evaluating, and approaching the care and treatment of modern metals.

The proliferation of new metals--such as stainless steels, aluminum alloys, and metallic coatings--in modern and contemporary art and architecture has made the need for professionals who can address their conservation more critical than ever. This volume seeks to bridge the gap between the vast technical literature on metals and the pressing needs of conservators, curators, and other heritage professionals without a metallurgy background. It offers practical information in a simple and direct way, enabling curators, conservators, and artists alike to understand and evaluate the objects under their care.

This invaluable reference reframes information formerly found only in specialized technical and industrial publications for the context of cultural heritage conservation. As the first book to address the properties, testing, and maintenance issues of the hundreds of metals and alloys available since the beginning of the twentieth century, it is destined to become an essential resource for conservators, artists, fabricators, curators, collectors, and anyone working with modern metals.

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