Uma panorâmica da pesquisa actual sobre a conservação da pedra

Segundo a editora, só no próximo mês será posto à venda o livro seguinte:

Eric Doehne, Clifford A. Price, Stone Conservation: An Overview of Current Research, 2.ª ed., Los Angeles, The Getty Conservation Institute, 2010.

No entanto, o livro já está livremente disponível na internet, aqui.

A primeira edição, publicada em 1996, da autoria de C. A. Price, também está disponível online, aqui.

Índice:

• Stone decay
• Characterizing the stone
• Describing decay
• How serious is it? Measuring the extent and severity of decay
• Causes of decay
• Putting it right: preventive and remedial treatments
• Preventive conservation
• Active conservation: cleaning
• Active conservation: desalination
• Active conservation: consolidation
• Surface coatings
• Do they work? Assessing the effectiveness of treatments
• Characterizing the treated stone
• Long-term performance
• Putting it into practice: conservation policy
• Responsible use of surface coatings and consolidants
• Retreatment
• Recording
• Heritage in stone: rock art, quarries, and replacement stone
• Rock art
• Historic quarries
• Replacement stone
• Doing better: increasing the effectiveness of research
• What is wrong?
• Putting it right
• What has changed? Some thoughts on the past fifteen years
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendix: resources for stone conservation
• Index
• About the authors