This volume explores the conservation and presentation of dress in museums and beyond as a complex, collaborative process. Recognizing this process as a dynamic interaction of investigation, interpretation, intervention, re-creation, and display, "Re...

Ever since its original publication in Germany in 1938, Max Schweidler's "Die Instandetzung von Kupferstichen, Zeichnungen, Buchern usw" has been recognized as a seminal modern text on the conservation and restoration of works on paper. To address wh...

This new edition presents a detailed overview of the Getty Conservation Institute's Scientific Program research from 1984 through 1994. It summarizes sixty-eight different projects, including environmental controls in museums, the use of protective m...