Para a história da conservação e do estudo laboratorial da obras de arte na primeira metade do século XX

Começou a ser distribuído o seguinte livro:

Francesca G. Bewer, A Laboratory for Art. Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950, Cambridge, Harvard Art Museum, 2010.

Índice:

• Edward Forbes takes on flaking paint (1899-1910)

• The museum as laboratory (1910s)

• Good chemistry: attracting like minds (1920s)

• A department for conservation and technical research (1930s)

• War as a catalyst for conservation (1940s)