CONSERVING CONTEMPORARY ART/ ISSUES, METHODS,MATERALS AND RESEARCH

Since the advent of the avant-garde in the early twentieth century, visual artists have adopted new techniques and materials, some o f whose characteristics of aging and wear are still largely unknown today. The conservator's intervention has become increasingly de licate, problematic, and experimental and requires not only technical knowledge of materials but also a greater awareness of the art ist's intellectual universe Since the advent of the avant-garde in the early twentieth century, visual artists have adopted new techniques an...[Read more]