Contemporary art

Modem synthetic polymers are the subject of increasing research by conservation scientists. Not only does their frequent use in conservation treatments require a better understanding of their long term stabiUty, but also many objects, including those in collections of contemporary art and in history and technology museums, are made out of these new materials. 

Elkins, James. Four ways of measuring the distance between alchemy and contemporary art. HYLE 9, no. 1 (Mar 2003) 105-118. rhttp //www.hyle.org/ioumal/issues/9-l/elkins.html. 

Based on contemporary art techniques, it was presumed that the sample P2a contained whole egg. This presumption was confirmed by PMM analysis of this extremely small... 

Ph.D. in art history, editor in chief of architektur.aktuell published by SpringerWienNewYork, Professor at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, curator of exhibitions and author/editor of publications on modern and contemporary art and architecture... 

Art critic, art historian and art theorist, concentrates on issues of the relationship between contemporary art and the classical avant-garde and of the dialogue between contemporary art, science and philosophy. Head of the Experimental Programs Department of the State Center of Modern Art (NCCA), Moscow... 

In an Impulse project for the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, lightening is generated between two rods at regular intervals. In the context between the contents of the private museum (contemporary art) and the surrounding space, this installation not only visibly directs intensified attention to the institution, but also serves as a reference to the natural sources of all art. 

RM The lone wolf Vadim Kosmatschof has always avoided groups, cliques, contemporary art scenes... 

National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia... 

For this contemporary art-marketing terminology, and much more, see... 

For a number of modern and contemporary art forgeries, see Moffitt, Art Forgery El Caso de la Dama de Elche. 

Hertz, R., ed. Theories of Contemporary Art. Englewood Cliffs Prentice-Hall, 1985. 

Risatti, H., ed. Postmodern Perspectives Issues in Contemporary Art. Englewood Cliffs ... 

In order to exist within the extremity and darkness of reality, artworks that do not wish to be sold as comfort must make themselves the same. Today radical art means dark art and its background colour is black. Much contemporary art disqualifies itself by taking no note of this and instead childishly delighting in colours.44... 

In 1993, a committee of curators and conservators, representing six major museums of modern and contemporary art in the Netherlands concluded that ... 

Kanazawa is situated in the western central part of the Honshu island in Japan, and the Ishikawa Prefecture Museum of Art (IPMA) sits in the heart of the city centre - which offers a variety of museums including the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - and next to the Kenrokuen Garden, one of most beautiful gardens in Japan. IPMA is the main art gallery of Ishikawa Prefecture and its collection includes a National Treasure and various important cultural properties in its permanent exhibition balls. 

Hummelen, Y. (1999). The Conservation of Contemporary Art New Methods and Strategies In Postprints of Mortality Immortality The legacy of 201 -century art Los Angeles 25-27 March 1998 (M. A. Corzo, ed.) pp. 171-174, Getty Conservation Institute. 

ICOM-CC Modem Materials and Contemporary Art Working Group (2007). Available from http //www.icom-cc.org [Accessed 6 July 2007]. 

Keneghan, B. (1999). Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Problems with plastics in contemporary art. In Postprints of Modern Art Who Cares 8-10 September 1997 (U. Hummelen and D. SiUe, eds) pp. 356-361. The Foundation for the Conservation of Modem Art and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage, Amsterdam. 

Education in plastics conservation was initiated in the 1990s and the number of courses is growing steadily. Specialized, fuU-time courses for plastics conservators at undergraduate level would ensure that museums and other cultural institutes had qualified staff to conserve and research their collections. A combination of formal training and more practical internships involving conservation of plastics, particularly in contemporary art, modem history and medical collections, would equip conservators and conservation scientists with knowledge and experience of new materials. 

The Conservation of Plastics provides important information on the definition of plastics, their history, technology, properties, identification, degradation, conservation and future preservation. Most importantly, it describes the state of the art of one of the newest fields in cultural heritage — plastics conservation. The information in this book is placed in context, and is illustrated with many examples that those involved in decision-making processes for conserving plastics objects will find helpful. This book will be present on every conservation table, in aU museums, training schools and universities, where it will be used on a daily basis. The beneficiaries will be the objects themselves plastics for everyday use, designer objects, furniture, toys and, most of all, modern and contemporary art. 

Thea B. van Oosten Senior conservation scientist Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN), The Netherlands, Amsterdam Former coordinator Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Working Group ICOM-CC Member of the board of ICOM-CC... 

Plastics have short lifetimes compared with those of traditional materials found in museums, exhibiting deterioration within 5 to 35 years of acquisition. Deterioration and conservation of plastics olgects in museums has only been recognized formally as an area worthy of research since 1991. However, despite its novelty, the conservation of plastics is a rapidly developing field. A measure of the recognition of plastics conservation as a serious discipline was the creation of the working group Modern Materials and Contemporary Art (MMCa WG) by the International Council of Museums Committee for Conservation in 1996. 

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