Investigations into a variety of materials and techniques used in creating pictorial art from various parts of Asia are presented in this volume: painted reliefs in a Cambodian temple; wall paintings in India; panel paintings in the Philippines; the figures of gods and guardians in a Japanese temple; paintings on silk and several papers covering aspects of the materials, pigments, painting and printing techniques used in works of art on paper. This preponderance of investigations relating to paper seems appropriate given the invention and extensive use of paper in Asia, and East Asia in particular.
This volume is the second in a series of Forbes Symposium proceedings. The first title, Scientific Research in the Field of Asian Art, edited by Paul Jett with Janet D. Douglas, Blythe McCarthy, and John Winter, was published in 2003 (by Archtype Publications in association with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution). The next Symposium volume concerns the scientific study of Asian sculpture.
Proceedings of the second Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
A technical study of the HokkedÅ? konpon mandara
Jacki Elgar, Anne Nishimura Morse, and Richard Newman
Materials for "gold" and "silver" tints in pictorial ornamentation of twelfth-century Japanese manuscripts
Yasushi Egami
Scientific analysis used in the treatment of the Map of the World and Famous Cities screens and resulting new perspectives on the paintings
Yasuhiro Oka, Sadatoshi Miura, Yasuhiro Hayakawa, and Tetsuo Miyakoshi
Three polychrome Japanese Buddhist sculptures from the Kamakura period:
the scientific examination of layer structures, ground materials, pigments, metal leafs, and powders
Mark Richter
The identification and light sensitivity of Japanese woodblock print colorants: the impact on art history and preservation
Sandra A. Connors, Paul M. Whitmore, Roger S. Keyes, and Elizabeth I. Coombs
Dayflower blue: its appearance and lightfastness in traditional Japanese prints
Shiho Sasaki and Elizabeth I. Coombs
Recent research on historic paper components in East Asian art objects
Agnieszka Helman-Wazny
An evaluation of xuan paper permanence and discussion of historical Chinese paper materials
M. Brigitte Yeh and Jesse Munn
Traditional Korean papermaking
Hyejung Yum
Investigation of alum in gelatin sizing of Far Eastern paintings on silk
Ekaterina Pasnak, Season Tse, and Alison Murray
Foxing on the backs of Chinese paintings
Xie Yulin and Chen Yuansheng
Chinese painting colors: history and reality
Jennifer Giaccai and John Winter
Painting materials and deterioration phenomena in a Yuan dynasty wall painting
John Twilley and Kathleen M. Garland
Research plan for the restoration of the multicolored paintings in Lungshan Temple at Lu-Gang
Tung Kuo-king and Tsai Yu-lin
Crossing the line: the interplay between scientific examination and conservation approaches in the treatment of a fifteenth-century Nepali thangka
Marco Leona and Sandhya S. Jain
Kalighat Pats: an examination of techniques and materials
Christine Mackay and Aditi Nath Sarkar
The conservation of the cultural property of India: board games depicted as murals
Rangachar Vasantha
Artistic practices of the Bohol school of painting: an analytical and archival study of nineteenth-century panel paintings in the Philippines
Nicole Tse
Wall decoration systems in the temples of Angkor
Esther von Plehwe-Leisen and Hans Leisen
