Description This practical guide provides artists, conservators, curators, and other heritage professionals with tools for understanding, evaluating, and approaching the care and treatment of modern metals.
The proliferation of new metals--such as stainless steels, aluminum alloys, and metallic coatings--in modern and contemporary art and architecture has made the need for professionals who can address their conservation more critical than ever.
This volume seeks to bridge the gap between the vast technical literature on metals and the pressing needs of conservators, curators, and other heritage professionals without a metallurgy background.
It offers practical information in a simple and direct way, enabling curators, conservators, and artists alike to understand and evaluate the objects under their care.
This invaluable reference reframes information formerly found only in specialized technical and industrial publications for the context of cultural heritage conservation.
As the first book to address the properties, testing, and maintenance issues of the hundreds of metals and alloys available since the beginning of the twentieth century, it is destined to become an essential resource for conservators, artists, fabricators, curators, collectors, and anyone working with modern metals.
About the Author Virginia Costa is a freelance scientist with over twenty years of experience working with modern metals.
She is based in Meudon, France.
Getty Conservation Institute Modern metals in cultural heritage: understanding and characterization, paperback/virginia costa
