*Paperback reprint January 2018*
Mounting and housing of works of art on paper have always had an important influence on both the survival and the appreciation of the work. Many dangers of a physical, biological and chemical nature await unprotected works of art on paper and specialist mounting provides the primary way of safeguarding them. Also, since the way in which works are presented to the public affects their perception of them, mounting of works of art can contribute significantly to the success or failure of an exhibition.
A variety of problems, solutions, past practice and future developments in the mounting, storage and display of artworks on paper are considered in this volume of thirty-one articles presented at a conference at the British Museum*. These include the significance of mounting in the historical study of prints and drawings, the preventive care of paper artifacts, their aesthetic presentation and the management of paper collections.
This volume (originally published in 2005) can be considered a companion volume to Conservation Mounting for Prints and Drawings: A Manual Based on Current Practice at the British Museum by Joanna M. Kosek (Archetype Publications 2004). Both volumes are essential tools for the owner, collector, curator, conservator and all professionals who deal with works of art on paper.
*Conference entitled: Mounting and Housing Art on Paper for Storage and Display: History, Science and Present-Day Practice
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Preface and acknowledgements
Historical Mounting
The Royal Mount: 250 years of mounting practice in the British Royal Collection
Alan Donnithorne
The photographic mount: a brief historical outline
Laura D. Staneff
Treatment of framed paper in the historic houses of the National Trust
Andrew Bush
Materials and Microenvironments
What happens to enclosed paper?
Joanna M. Kosek and David Jacobs
The quest for acceptable standards: mount boards and hinging papers, tapes and adhesives for mounting and framing
Barry C. Leveton
Open-minded storage: a box-maker's perspective on housing art on paper
Stuart Macdonald Welch
Print frame microclimates
David Thickett
Out of the box: measuring microclimates in Australian-made Solander boxes
Andrea Wise, Caitlin Granowski and Belinda Gourley
Investigation of historical and modern conservation daguerreotype housings
Hanako Murata
Anoxic framing investigations at Tate to date
Katharine Lockett and Brian McKenzie
The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights: scientific basis and practice of encasement
Catherine Nicholson and Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler
Argon-filled containers for the display of paper
Nancy Purinton and Joan Irving
Contemporary Practice in Mounting
Mounting as part of preservation planning
Mounting and housing in a modern collection: Moderna Museet
Alison Norton and Ellen Cronholm
Storage solutions for large format works on paper
Michelle Facini
Developing a preservation programme for modern unframed and unglazed photographic and digital artworks
Àngels Arribas, Keith Morrison and James Berry
Wellcome moves
Caroline Checkley-Scott and Julia Nurse
2-D or not 2-D? - that is the question: the storage and display of rolled wallpapers
Nicola Walker and Christine Woods
Mounting in a tropical climate: preservation, display and storage of the graphic art collection at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India
Praveen Kumar Agarwal, Ram Pravesh Savita and Chitta Panda
Overviews and case studies
Conservation mounting at the V&A: an overview of techniques
Clair Battisson, Chris Gingell and Simon Fleury
The display of single-sheet material: two recent exhibitions at the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Andrew Honey
Reproducing decorative mounts
Louise Bradley
A 1960s classic: researching an approach to the treatment of an unstable framed linocut by Edward Bawden
Alice Powell
Housing and storage solutions for four book of hours bi-folios
Jordi Casasayas
Mounting and framing of gouaches by the CoBrA Movement
Piet van Dalen and Jan Stokmans
Oriental and African works
Advantages and disadvantages of the hanging scroll format from a conservation viewpoint
Yasuhiro Oka
Don't throw away the box
Simon Fleury
Wrap and roll or flatten and hinge: approaches to mounting and storage of Chinese art on paper
David Green and Jin Xian Qiu
Mounting fragile Tibetan and Asian material at the British Library: exhibition and storage
Ian Swindale
East meets West: solutions for housing papyri and thangkas
Nicola Lewis
Mounting papyri at the British Museum
Bridget Leach
Mounting of African paintings and scrolls: two case studies on textile and parchment
David Giles and Victoria de Korda
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