Migrants: Art, Artists, Materials and Ideas Crossing Borders

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 reflect on the role of migration embodied in works of art and material culture as documented in visual and written sources.

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.

ART AND ARTISTS Part-production of 'Hanseatic' altarpieces in Scandinavian diaspora communities in the Late Medieval Period Kristin Kausland

Daniel 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 Nausikaa 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,

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

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