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Art -- Conservation and restoration

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• Conservation and restoration

• Art -- Conservation and restoration -- Methodology
• Art -- Conservation and restoration -- Research
• Architecture -- Conservation and restoration
• Art museums -- Conservation and restoration
• Art objects -- Conservation and restoration
• Art, Moroccan -- Conservation and restoration
• Buddhist art -- Conservation and restoration
• Mural painting and decoration -- Conservation and restoration
• Sculpture -- Conservation and restoration

• Airborne Particles in Museums (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1993), by W. W. Nazaroff, Mary P. Ligocki, Lynn G. Salmon, Glen Rowan Cass, Theresa Fall, Michael C. Jones, Harvey I. H. Liu, and Timothy Ma (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• The Nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1986), by Philip R. Ward (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Accelerated Aging: Photochemical and Thermal Aspects (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1994), by Robert L. Feller (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Cellulose Nitrate in Conservation (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1988), by Charles Selwitz (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Principles of Experimental Design for Art Conservation Research (1992), by Terry J. Reedy and Chandra L. Reedy (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• Statistical Analysis in Art Conservation Research (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1988), by Terry J. Reedy and Chandra L. Reedy (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• Conservation as Cultural Survival (1980), ed. by Renata Holod (PDF at archnet.org)

• Conservation as Cultural Survival (1980), ed. by Renata Holod (PDF at archnet.org)

• Space for Freedom: The Search for Architectural Excellence in Muslim Societies, by Ismail Serageldin (PDF with commentary at archnet.org)

• Die Denkmalpflege (in German) (partial serial archives)

• Preservation News (partial serial archives)

• Preservation News (partial serial archives)

• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu

• A Glossary of Historic Masonry Deterioration Problems and Preservation Treatments (Washington: Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, Preservation Assistance Division, 1984), ed. by Anne E. Grimmer (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Stoa of Attalos II in Athens (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992), by Homer A. Thompson, illust. by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• The Conservation of Archaeological Sites in the Mediterranean Region (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1997), ed. by Marta De la Torre (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Architectural and Urban Conservation in the Islamic World (1990), ed. by Abu H. Imamuddin and Karen R. Longeteig (PDF at archnet.org)

• The Corning Flood: Museum Under Water (Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 1977), ed. by John H. Martin and Charleen K. Edwards (PDF files with commentary at cmog.org)

• Monitoring for Gaseous Pollutants in Museum Environments (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2006), by Cecily M. Grzywacz (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Care and Handling of Art Objects: Practices in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1987), by Marjorie Shelley, illust. by Helmut Nickel (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Minbar from the Kutubiyya Mosque (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; et al., c1998), contrib. by Jonathan Bloom, Aḥmad Tawfīq, Stefano Carboni, Jack Soultanian, Antoine M. Wilmering, Mark D. Minor, Andrew Zawacki, and El Mostafa Hbibi (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Proceedings of an International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1997), ed. by Neville Agnew (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)
• Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010), ed. by Neville Agnew (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010), ed. by Neville Agnew (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Art and Eternity: The Nefertari Wall Paintings Conservation Project, 1986-1992 (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1993), ed. by Miguel Angel Corzo and Mahasti Ziai Afshar (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Proceedings of an International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1997), ed. by Neville Agnew (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010), ed. by Neville Agnew (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Art and Eternity: The Nefertari Wall Paintings Conservation Project, 1986-1992 (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1993), ed. by Miguel Angel Corzo and Mahasti Ziai Afshar (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice (Marina Del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, 1995), ed. by Arie Wallert, Erma Hermens, and Marja Peek (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Early Gothic Saint-Denis: Restorations and Survivals (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Pamela Z. Blum (HTML at UC Press)

• Early Gothic Saint-Denis: Restorations and Survivals (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Pamela Z. Blum (HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies; and Other Writings on Art (Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press; 2017), by Georges Clemenceau, trans. by Bruce Michelson (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Illinois)
• A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• The Visual Experience; An Introduction To Art (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ca. 1961), by Bates Lowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires: Collection in 8o (Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts) (partial serial archives)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1877), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• "Civilidad y Arte": Discursos de Instalación de la "Academia de Bellas Artes" y de Presentación de sus Fundadores (in Spanish; Asunción, 1909), by Juan Silvano Godoi and Viriato Díaz-Pérez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
• The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at modjourn.org)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

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