Facture: Conservation, Science, Art History
WARNING
You are viewing an older version of the Yalebooks website. Please visit out new website with more updated information and a better user experience: https://www.yalebooks.com
Volume 2: Art in Context
Edited by Daphne Barbour and E. Melanie Gifford
Read this book online via the A&AePortal, our art and architectural history eBook platform. To learn more about how to access this book, please contact us.
View Inside
Format: PB-with FlapsPrice: $35.00
Facture presents the latest conservation research on masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, spanning the early Renaissance through the present and encompassing a range of media. Volume 2 examines great art of two very different eras—the Italian Renaissance and the 20th century—and puts in new contexts works such as Giotto’s Madonna and Child, bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin, watercolors by John Marin, early paintings by Andy Warhol, and Mark Rothko’s multiforms, which mark the birth of his abstraction. Seven essays are illustrated with outstandingly detailed photography and share a common approach. They each begin with meticulous material and analytical study of the work and then place the findings in a broader historical context, providing new perspectives on well-known works. A fascinating contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on art, this publication extends a tradition of fostering dialogue among art historians, scientists, and conservators in the international community.
Published by the National Gallery of Art, Washington/Distributed by Yale University Press
Daphne Barbour is senior object conservator and E. Melanie Gifford is research conservator for paintings technology, both at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Publication Date: September 8, 2015
Publishing Partner: Published by the National Gallery of Art, Washington/Distributed by Yale University Press
193 color + b/w illus.
