Artistic production and the preservation of cultural property have always been subject to the ebb and flow of international influences. Major factors have included the supply of materials, the migration of artists, designers and craftspeople, as well as evolving conservation theory and practice within the spheres of the fine and applied arts. The cross-disciplinary papers in this volume, presented at a conference in Cambridge, reflect on the role of migration embodied in works of art and material culture as documented in visual and written sources.
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ART AND ARTISTS
Part-production of ‘Hanseatic’ altarpieces in Scandinavian diaspora communities in the Late Medieval Period
Kristin Kausland
Daniël van den Queborne, painter to the House of Orange and its English allies in the Netherlands
Edward Town and Jessica David
Italian Artisans of marble mosaic in the United Kingdom: migrants as conveyors of skills and knowledge in a transnational perspective
Javier P. Grossutti
The migration of concretist thought between Latin America and Europe
Pia Gottschaller
CONSERVATORS AND CONSERVATION
Waxing enthusiastic: transmission and migration of consolidation materials in the early twentieth century
Caitlin R. O’Grady
Migration of ideas and approaches: tracing conservation practices in Ukraine from the Soviet period to the present day
Valeriia Kravchenko and Katya Belaia
In their own words: why Western European conservators chose to migrate to the United States and what they found when they arrived
Rebecca Anne Rushfield
ART AND CONFLICT
Stolen colours, coercion and kidnap: a defeated nation’s artists’ materials and conservation knowledge in the aftermath of the Second World War
Morwenna Blewett
Narrowed Minds and Destroyed Communities: Anglo-American Perceptions of Jewish Heritage in Thessaloniki, 1943–46
Roderick Bailey
Give Sorrow Images: Trauma and Loss in the Works of Displaced Artists from Syria
Charlotte Bank
‘I am not just here to make you cry’. Unexpected challenges to the artistic freedom of refugee artists
Nausikaä El-Mecky
MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES
‘Plaster of Paris’ and Italian Formatori
Eckart Marchand
The face of a metal and the skin of a bomb
Jenny Bulstrode
London 1815–1914: importing and exporting artists’ materials, artists and the role of immigrant suppliers
Jacob Simon
TRANSMITTING IDEAS
A symbiotic relationship: local and foreign artistic exchanges at the fifteenth-century Ethiopian court
Karen French, Glenn Gates, Hae Min Park and Christine Sciacca
A technical study of polychrome wooden sculptures from the Jesuit province of Paracuaria in four Brazilian museums
Isabel Wagner and Julia Brandt
Positioning migration in the art collection of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1895–2003
Esmee Schoutens, Rosa Mulder and Janneke Sif Rutten
