Greener Solvents in Conservation
An Introductory Guide
Edited by Gwendoline R. Fife
Paperback (Published)
(December 2021)
ISBN: 9781909492844
6.14 x 9.21 inches
Price: $40.00
In stock
This handbook, published in association with Sustainability in Conservation focusses on organic solvents, their impact on human health and the environment and how they might potentially affect the materials of the artefacts which are worked on by conservators. The aim is to assist in the eradication of the widespread use of the most harmful solvents by providing information to enable their identification and the most straightforward ways of determining alternatives that may be used in their place.
This handbook, published in association with Sustainability in Conservation focusses on organic solvents, their impact on human health and the environment and how they might potentially affect the materials of the artefacts which are worked on by conservators. The aim is to assist in the eradication of the widespread use of the most harmful solvents by providing information to enable their identification and the most straightforward ways of determining alternatives that may be used in their place. The book will be made available freely on the website of Sustainability in Conservation.
Foreword Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction Izabella Gill-Brown and Gwendoline R. Fife (with a contributionfrom Fergal Byrne) Chapter 1 Considerations in defining greener solvents for conservation Karoline Sofie Hennum and Marie Desrochers (with a contributionfrom Justine Wuebold and Matthew Eckelman) Chapter 2 A history of 'green' solvents in conservation Aline Assumpcao and Lucile Pourret Chapter 3 Practical steps to greener solutions Gwendoline R. Fife (with a contribution from Melissa Lewis) Glossary Bibliography,
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction
Izabella Gill-Brown and Gwendoline R. Fife (with a contributionfrom Fergal Byrne)
Chapter 1 Considerations in defining greener solvents for conservation
Karoline Sofie Hennum and Marie Desrochers (with a contributionfrom Justine Wuebold and Matthew Eckelman)
Chapter 2 A history of ‘green’ solvents in conservation
Aline Assumpção and Lucile Pourret
Chapter 3 Practical steps to greener solutions
Gwendoline R. Fife (with a contribution from Melissa Lewis)
Glossary
Bibliography
- Edited by Gwendoline R. Fife
"'(...) It gives you some tools to look at your cupboard in a new light and that's a very good start. It's a good little book, it's well researched to the point and above all else needed. It's a slim book at 75 pages but I firmly believe it's essential in almost all conservation labs and it should fit nicely next to your Velson Horie in the bookshelf. (...) Go read it!'" THE C WORD - The Conservators' Podcast Season 11 Episode 02, 00:58:45
—
'(...) It gives you some tools to look at your cupboard in a new light and that’s a very good start. It's a good little book, it's well researched to the point and above all else needed. It's a slim book at 75 pages but I firmly believe it's essential in almost all conservation labs and it should fit nicely next to your Velson Horie in the bookshelf. (…) Go read it!'
—
Similar Books
Circulation, Use, Impact
The Consumption of Architectural Books in the Early Modern Eastern Adriatic
Volume 1
Legal Visuality
Exegesis, Ambiguity, and Dissimulation of the Donation of Constantine in the Early Modern Period
Naples as Laboratory / Laboratorium Neapel
Style Options, Artistic Rivalry and Self Fashioning in Neapolitan Baroque Painting / Plurale Stilbildung, Kunstlerkonkurrenz und Self Fashioning in der neapolitanischen Barockmalerei
Nurturing the Elite
Representations of Drinking, Eating, and Religious Vessels in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography
Volume 13
Portraying the Individual in the Roman East
Local–Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (First–Fourth Centuries AD)
Volume 18
Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425-1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 1
Volume 17
Technical Studies of Asian Art
Proceedings of the Seventh Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art
The Antiquarian Book-trade in Switzerland
Sir Thomas Phillipps's Acquisitions in the 1820s and their Later Dispersal
Volume 69
Art and Mysticism in Silesia in the Baroque Period
Angelus Silesius, Bernhard Rosa, and Michael Willmann
Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie
The Arts and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam
Volume 10.0
Boğazköy Tablets in the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations (Bo 95–Bo 3993)
Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesinde Bulunan Boğazköy Tabletleri (Bo 95–Bo 3993)
Volume 3
