Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint

This volume represents 27 peer-reviewed papers presented at the ICOP 2013 symposium which will help conservators and curators recognise problems and interpret visual changes on paintings, which in turn give a more solid basis for decisions on the treatment of these paintings. The subject matter ranges from developments of paint technology, working methods of individual artists, through characterisation of paints and paint surfaces, paint degradation vs. long time stability, to observations of issues in collections, cleaning and other treatment issues as well as new conservation approaches.

From the content: 1. 20th Century Oil Paint. The interface between science and conservation and the challenges for modern oil paint research -- 2. Do we see what we know or do we know what we see? Conservation of oil paintings in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam -- 3. Towards interpretation of making, meaning, and change in British 20th century oil paintings: the relevance of an artists paint archive -- 4. The delight of modern organic pigment creations -- 5. Modern Oil Paints -- Formulations, organic additives, and degradation: some case studies -- 6. Distinction by micro-Raman spectroscopy and chemometrical analysis of copper phthalocyanine blue polymorphs in oil-based and acrylic paint samples -- 7. Charting the development of oil-based enamel paints through the correlation of historical paint technology manuals with scientific analysis -- 8. Hans Hofmanns last lesson: a study of the artists materials in the last decade of his career. 9. Théorème de Gödel by Georges Mathieu, 1957. Study and restoration: consolidation through cohesive regeneration using a solvent -- 10. Non-traditionally painted oil painting: how to treat it properly? Josip Vaništas Cakes (1955) -- 11. Conservatio…