ATSR Publication 3 Study and Serendipity - Testimonies of Artists' Practice

Joyce H. Townsend, Erma Hermans (editors)
London: Archetype Publications Expected 2009-2010
Paperback with numerous colour plates

After two successful symposia in Amsterdam and Madrid, the ICOM-CC working group Art Technological Source Research organised its third international symposium, in 2008, in cooperation with the History of Art Department at Glasgow University, Scotland.
The papers presented at this conference centred on the exploration of artists' practice from a wide range of disciplines and periods, as recorded in visual and written testimonies; from treatises and manuals to correspondence, ledgers, diaries and journals, as well as images: paintings, prints, photographs, film etc. The study of these often illuminating sources on artists' techniques in support of art historical and conservation research is key to the conference. There is some emphasis on the 18th century, a period so far little studied in this context. The conference papers as well as the posters and demonstrations, hope to provide a springboard for much new research, new approaches in methodology, and the disclosure of so far unpublished documentary sources. The proceedings will all be in English.

Table of contents

Virtues and vices in late medieval art productions: The painter's progress to hell Manfred Lautenschlager

Codicological indicators of practical mediaeval artists' recipes Mark Clarke

Validation of colour vocabulary, or the case of chrysocolla Cecilia Rönnerstam

Copper pigments in medieval times: green, blue, greenish blue or bluish green? Catarina Miguel, Ana Claro, Maria João Melo

Three centuries of documentary sources for tin relief Jilleen Nadolny

Printmakers at work: images of copper engravers and plate printers in their studios, 1560-1645 Ad Stijnman

To challenge the material by one self: the Finnish tradition of reinforced unsaturated polyester by three artists from the 1980s to 1990s. Artists' interviews as documentary source Paivi Kyllonen-Kunnas

Technique and process in the papers of David Smith Richard Mulholland

A la recherché du pigment perdu.. Doris Oltrogge & Hartmut Kutzke

Sources for the study of painting materials in the eighteenth century in Spain: Goya and the royal painters Roc’o Bruquetas Galán

The technical legacy of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1641 to 1800, and 'The Practice of Painting and Perspective Made Easy', by Thomas Bardwell (1756) Rica Jones Conservation Department

The MasterÕs own hand'? A study of Rubens's retouching with reference to literary sources and technical examination of his paintings Hélène Dubois

Fine art materials in Vigani's Cabinet, 1704, of Queens' College, Cambridge University Lisa Wagner

Experience and experiment: The eighteenth- century example of the Comte de Caylus and his ÔMémoire sur la peinture ˆ l'encaustique', Geneva, 1755 William Whitney

Studying the Artistic Process: Kupelwieser's Fresco Series ÔHistory of Austria', his written and visual sources Sigrid EybÐGreen, Wolfgang Baatz, Werner Kitlitschka

Oudry's Painted Menagerie. A technical study of selected works from a series of animal portraits by Jean-Baptiste Oudry, with reference to the artist's lectures on painting technique to the French Royal Academy Tiarna Doherty and Alan Phenix, Anna Schšnemann and Adriana Rizzo

En plein soleil: Whistler and nature: documents and realia Erma Hermens and Margaret F. MacDonald

A Dutch manuscript on eighteenth-century painting technique: Willem van Leen Arie Wallert

Art for War: drawing and painting materials and techniques from a Spanish military manuscript manual on cartography (c. XVIII) Stefanos Kroustallis,

Impossible recipes Spike Bucklow

Preliminary report on the documentation ofprimary historical material from a little known Belgian family of artists' colourmen (1865 to the present) Brian Barrett

Study on materials and techniques used in a Romanian illuminated medieval manuscript B.G. Brunetti et al.

Study of a Portuguese 18-th century manuscript Ana Freitas et al

Vault painting of the main hall at Verdala Palace, Malta: Tracing the history of wall paintings through visual documents T Fardi, R De Angelis, B Scicluna

A database on studio practice in 19th century Netherlands Mayken Jonkman, Jeroen Kapelle

Behind the paint C Lamb, R Ellison

Technische Mitteilunger fur Malerei - a German journal (1884-1944) on painting materials and techniques Kathrin Pilz

Making paint without a recipe - Modern paint reconstructionsP Saltmarsh, JJ v/d Berg, A Burnstock

The pigment box of the tile maker Ali Muhammed Isfahani, Iran, 19th century L Troalen et al

The Sri Lanka Masks collection from the National Museums of Scotland: ethnographic and scientific studiesL Troalen & L McGill

(De/Re)-Constructing Turner Joyce Townsend et al

Sources for the study of painting materials in 18th century spain: Goya and the royal painters Rocio Bruquetas Galán

Comparative analysis of painting recipes: a new contribution to the studies of the texts of the Strasburg family Sylvie Neven


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