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Preface. Report on a research project
Introduction. Conserving active matter and the conservator / Soon Kai Poh
Introduction. Conserving active matter and the historian / Peter N. Miller
1. Philosophy. One. Introduction. Active matter : some initial philosophical considerations / Ivan Gaskell and A. W. Eaton. Two. The expressive import of degradation and decay in contemporary art / Sherri Irvin. Three. The look of age : appearance and reality / Carolyn Korsmeyer. Four. The aesthetics of repair / Yuriko Saito. Five. Death and entanglement : some thoughts about life, love, and the aims of art conservation / Alva Noë
2. History. Six. Introduction. Conserving active matter and the art historian’s craft / Ittai Weinryb. Seven. Active matter in Presocratic thought? / André Laks. Eight. Active matter : a philosophical aberration or a very old belief? / Guido Giglioni. Nine. Oak and oil, chalk and flint : rood screens and churches / Spike Bucklow. Ten. Bread and wine, body and blood / Lee Palmer Wandel
3. Indigenous ontologies. Eleven. Introduction. For the lives of things : indigenous ontologies of active matter / Aaron Glass. Twelve. Living knowledge in cultural collections / Sven Haakanson. Thirteen. The orator’s dilemma : wampum as material, media, medicine, and memory / Jamie Jacobs. Fourteen. Always becoming better stewards : caring for collections at the National Museum of the American Indian / Kelly McHugh. Fifteen. Hoki Mauri : bring back the life essence / Rose Evans
4. Materials. Sixteen. Introduction. Developing informed and sustainable responses to the alteration of cultural artifacts : materials engineering meets material culture / Jennifer L. Mass. Seventeen. Contextualizing the installation of Tania Bruguera’s Untitled (Havana 2000) / Chris McGlinchey. Eighteen. Moving beyond the binaries : exploring the active matter of metal soaps in paint / Francesca Casadio. Nineteen. Characterizing the immaterial : noninvasive imaging and analysis of Stephen Benton’s Engine no. 9 / Marc Walton, Pengxiao Hao, Marc Vermeulen, Florian Willomitzer, and Oliver Cossairt. Twenty. Making Meiji red : semiotic activity in the colors of Japanese woodblock prints, 1864–1900 / Marco Leona and Henry D. Smith II
Appendix. Events of the research project Conserving Active Matter.
Introduction. Conserving active matter and the conservator / Soon Kai Poh
Introduction. Conserving active matter and the historian / Peter N. Miller
1. Philosophy. One. Introduction. Active matter : some initial philosophical considerations / Ivan Gaskell and A. W. Eaton. Two. The expressive import of degradation and decay in contemporary art / Sherri Irvin. Three. The look of age : appearance and reality / Carolyn Korsmeyer. Four. The aesthetics of repair / Yuriko Saito. Five. Death and entanglement : some thoughts about life, love, and the aims of art conservation / Alva Noë
2. History. Six. Introduction. Conserving active matter and the art historian’s craft / Ittai Weinryb. Seven. Active matter in Presocratic thought? / André Laks. Eight. Active matter : a philosophical aberration or a very old belief? / Guido Giglioni. Nine. Oak and oil, chalk and flint : rood screens and churches / Spike Bucklow. Ten. Bread and wine, body and blood / Lee Palmer Wandel
3. Indigenous ontologies. Eleven. Introduction. For the lives of things : indigenous ontologies of active matter / Aaron Glass. Twelve. Living knowledge in cultural collections / Sven Haakanson. Thirteen. The orator’s dilemma : wampum as material, media, medicine, and memory / Jamie Jacobs. Fourteen. Always becoming better stewards : caring for collections at the National Museum of the American Indian / Kelly McHugh. Fifteen. Hoki Mauri : bring back the life essence / Rose Evans
4. Materials. Sixteen. Introduction. Developing informed and sustainable responses to the alteration of cultural artifacts : materials engineering meets material culture / Jennifer L. Mass. Seventeen. Contextualizing the installation of Tania Bruguera’s Untitled (Havana 2000) / Chris McGlinchey. Eighteen. Moving beyond the binaries : exploring the active matter of metal soaps in paint / Francesca Casadio. Nineteen. Characterizing the immaterial : noninvasive imaging and analysis of Stephen Benton’s Engine no. 9 / Marc Walton, Pengxiao Hao, Marc Vermeulen, Florian Willomitzer, and Oliver Cossairt. Twenty. Making Meiji red : semiotic activity in the colors of Japanese woodblock prints, 1864–1900 / Marco Leona and Henry D. Smith II
Appendix. Events of the research project Conserving Active Matter.