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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Science of Paintings
  name:
    name part: Taft, W. Stanley.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Mayer, James W.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XI, 236 p. 79 illus. online resource.
  abstract: The beauty, mystery, joy, and inspired observation of the human spirit that paintings evoke result from a complex of intuitive and cognitive choices made by the artist. An understanding of the genesis of these choices can be as elusive as the resulting imagery, but great paintings seem to initiate in us a curiosity about the ideas, methods, and mate- als used by their creators. In the twentieth century connoisseurship has been enriched by the application of methods of scientific analysis. The results of these investigations into the physical properties of paintings have shed new light on their authenticity and individual histories as well as on the craft in general. Developments in the fields of physics and chemistry have allowed us to understand still more about how we p- ceive and interact with paintings. This book is intended for those both inside and outside the field of art who wish to gain insight into the making of paintings. It is directed toward students, teachers, and scientists in engineering, physics, and chemistry as well as those in art, art history, and art conservation. This book grew out of the interdisciplinary undergraduate-level course Art, Isotopes, and Ana- sis taught at Cornell University by the two authors and supported in l- tures and seminars by three of the contributing authors: Dr. Richard Newman, of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Dr. Dusan Stulik, of the Getty Conservation Institute; and Prof.
  table of contents: The Structure and Analysis of Paintings -- Paint -- Organic Binders -- The Painter’s Color and Light -- Color and Light -- Optics of Paint Films -- Beyond the Eye -- Detection of Fakes -- Object of Interaction.
  note: by W. Stanley Taft, James W. Mayer.
  subject:
    topic: Culture
    topic: Study and teaching
  subject:
    topic: Fine arts
  subject:
    topic: Chemical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cultural and Media Studies
  subject:
    topic: Fine Arts
  subject:
    topic: Physics, general
  subject:
    topic: Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
  classification: NX1-820
  classification: 700
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9780387217413
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b97567
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    record change date: 20151204155735.0
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