Art on paper : mounting and housing / edited by Judith Rayner, Joanna M. Kosek, and Birthe Christensen.

Collection type	Library
Author	Rayner, Judith.; Kosek, Joanna M.; Christensen, Birthe.; British Museum;
Call Number	PL-Con
Document type	Monograph
Year	2005.
Pagination	vii, 208 p. : ill. ( some col.) ; 31 cm.
Publisher	Archetype Publications in association with the British Museum,
Note	Published by Archetype Publications in association with the British Museum. Bibliographical references at the end of chapters. Includes bibliographies. "This volume contains 31 articles produced for the 2005 British Museum conference Mounting and housing art on paper for storage and display: history, science, and present-day practice. They cover topics such as the significance of mounting in the historical study of prints and drawings, the preventive care of paper artifacts, their aesthetic presentation and the management of paper collections"--P. vii.
Place made	London :

Abstract

Historical mounting -- Royal Mount: 250 years of mounting practice in the British Royal Collection / Alan Donnithorne -- Photographic mount: a brief historical outline / Laura D. Staneff -- Treatment of framed paper in the historic houses of the National Trust / Andrew P. Bush -- Materials and Microenvironments -- What happens to enclosed paper? / Joanna M. Koesk, David Jacobs -- The quest for acceptable standards: mount boards and hinging papers, tapes and adhesives for mounting and framing / Barry C. Leveton -- Open-minded storage: a box-maker''s perspective on housing art on paper / Stuart Macdonald Welch -- Print frame microclimates / David Thickett -- Out of the box: measuring microclimates in Australian-made solander boxes / Andrea Wise, Caitlin Granowski, Belinda Gourley -- Investigation of historical and modern conservation daguerreotype housings / Hanako Murata -- Anoxic framing investigations at Tate to date / Katharine Lockett, Brian McKenzie -- Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights: scientific basis and practice of encasement / Catherine Nicholson, Mary Lynn Ritzenthaler -- Argon-filled containers for the display of paper / Nancy Purinton, Joan Irving -- Mounting as part of preservation planning -- Mounting and housing in a modern collection: Moderna Museet / Alison Norton, Ellen Cronholm -- Storage solutions for large format works on paper / Michelle Facini -- Developing a preservation programme for modern unframed and unglazed photogrphic and digital artworks / Angels Arribas, Keith Morrison, James Berry -- Welcome moves / Caroline Checkley-Scott, Julia Nurse -- 2-D or not 2-D? -- that is the question: the storage and display of rolled wallpapers / Nicola Walker, Christine Woods -- Mounting in a tropical climate: preservation, display and storage of the graphic art collection at the Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, India / Praveen Kumar Agrwal, Ram Pravesh Savita, Chitta Panda -- Overviews and case studies -- Conservation mounting at the V&A: an overview of techniques / Clair Battisson, Chris Gingell, Simon Fleury -- Display of single-sheet material: two recent exhibitions at the Bodleian Library, Oxford / Andrew Honey -- Reproducing decorative mounts / Louise Bradley -- 1960s classic: researching an approach to the treatment of an unstable framed linocut / Alice Powell -- Housing and storage solutions for four book of hours bi-folios / Jordi Casasayas -- Mounting and framing of gouaches by the CoBrA Movement / Piet van Dalen, Jan Stokmans -- Oriental and African works -- Advantages and disadvantages of the hanging scroll format from a conservation viewpoint / Yasuhiro Oka -- Don''t throw away the box / Simon Fleury -- Wrap and roll or flatten and hinge: approaches to mounting and storage of Chinese art on paper / David Green, Jin Xian Qiu -- Mounting fragile Tibetan and Asian material at the British Library: exhibition and storage / Ian Swindale -- East meets West: solutions for housing papyri and thangkas / Nicola Lewis -- Mounting papyri at the British Museum / Bridget Leach -- Mounting of African paintings and scrolls: two scrolls: two case studies on textile and parchment / David Giles, Victoria de Korda.