Science and Art (eBook)

Jackson Pollock's Drip Paintings: Tracing the Introduction of Alkyds through Non-invasive Analysis of Mid-1940s Paintings; Piero Manzoni, Achromes: An Initial Investigation into the Chemical and Technical Characterisation of the Artist’s Materials; 1949-1968 Concetti spaziali by Lucio Fontana – A Historical-Artistic and Technical Study; Josef Albers’ practice with 20th Century pigments. A non-invasive analytical approach; From Identification to a New Insight of Preservation Theory for Contemporary Art. Innovative Approaches to Complex Care in Alina Zapocznikow Case Studies; The Colors of Lina Bo Bardi: Analytical Investigations of Lina’s Felt-tip Pens; “Art is not Science”: A Study of Materials and Techniques in Five of Enrico Baj’s Nuclear Paintings; On Video Art Preservation. A Conversation with Fabrizio Plessi; Arte Concreto Invención. Towards an industrialized surface aesthetics; Judith Lauand: Art and Technology of a Brazilian Concrete Painter; A new substance under the sun. How synthetic polymers were selected and transformed into works of art by Ângelo de Sousa, Julião Sarmento and Lourdes Castro; Miquel Barceló: The Rotten and The Waste As A Fundamental Part Of The Process; Explosive Beauty: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang; There Are. Fabre’s visual art; Hockney, Hume and Chandra: Surface, Change and Conservation; The Deep Meaning of Poetry. Eduardo Kac’s Art of the Fundamental Processes; When Surgery Meets Conservation: The Treatment of the Multi-material Sculpture Love Me by Sarah Lucas; Diagrams, Technology and New Materials: the Scientific Nature of Loris Cecchini’s Artworks; Spectral Revisions: A Colourful Expert Conversation; Painting with Acrylics: José Gutiérrez, Gunther Gerzso and the Material Innovation in Mexican Contemporary Painting; Industrial Design objects in the Museum environment; From Context to Content. On the Preservation of Net-based Art; Painted Surfaces in Contemporary Architecture