First Aid for Art
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When disaster strikes, the first few hours are critical to saving art, artifacts and important objects. This ebook, written by highly regarded professional museum conservators, outlines procedures and techniques to help improve the chances of rescuing artworks, photographs, books, memorabilia, textiles, and furniture from catastrophic damage. Although not a manual on formal art conservation, this ebook will help you to organize materials, time and tasks to make decisions when triage is the only option. Presented with graphic clarity, this handy publication will provide welcome guidance to non-specialists and professionals alike.Treatments are organized into twelve chapters, each dealing with a particular medium. Pared to the essentials, the chapters begin with an introduction about the properties and treatment of common materials. This is followed by a description of what to anticipate and how to determine immediate and deferred action. Suggestions for stabilizing materials until professional assistance is available are outlined. Concluding each chapter is a brief list of supplies. The book includes an appendix of professional resources.
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The idea for this book grew from a conversation about the clarity and brevity of the emergency instructions found in the back of every airplane seat. If it’s possible to use one plastic card to tell people how to get off a jumbo jet in an emergency, could it be possible to help non-specialists salvage cultural property that has been damaged or put at risk from a disaster?
The practices and methods we describe here are offered as our opinions only. While we can assure you that our intentions are genuine, and while we believe the recommendations in this book describe best practices in our professions as art conservators, we make no guarantees or warranties as to results. In preparing this work and offering it to you, we trust that you will use it knowing that actual results can vary with the nature of the artifact, its composition, substances used, and a wide variety of conditions that will determine the facts and circumstances of each case.
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• Determine which books contain coated paper. These should be frozen if at all possible, before the paper starts to stick together. If freezing them is not an option, carefully try to separate the pages before drying, as this will be impossible later without damage.
• Identify pages that have inks or colors that are smearing or blurring, and freeze or dry these as soon as possible.
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