Notice catalographique « Science and art : the contemporary painted surface »

• Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)
• Brunetti, Brunetto Giovanni
• Sgamellotti, Antonio
• Miliani, Costanza

• Science and art are increasingly interconnected in the activities of the study and conservation of works of art. Science plays a key role in cultural heritage, from developing new analytical techniques for studying the art, to investigating new ways of preserving the materials for the future.
• Following on from the 2014 title Science and Art: The Painted Surface, this book consists of a series of chapters written together by scientists, art historians, conservators, curators and artists dedicated to conservation, execution techniques, languages and conceptual topics. Science and Art: The Contemporary Painted Surface largely covers execution techniques, material’s conservation and languages of artists, representative of twelve different countries, all protagonists of the development of innovative significant techniques and methodologies.
• The book opens with a focus on widely historicized artists, such as Jackson Pollock, Lucio Fontana, Enrico Baj, Piero Manzoni and Joseph Albers. Its core is dedicated to the work of major worldwide renowned living artists, in a perspective that, while considering the Sixties as the historical starting point of contemporaneity, does not neglect to offer a view on the work done in the immediately preceding years. Several interviews with artists are included. Final chapters are dedicated to contemporary design, net art, and painted surfaces in contemporary architecture.

Chapter 1 : Jackson Pollock's Drip Paintings: Tracing the Introduction of Alkyds Through Non-invasive Analysis of Mid-1940s Paintings [Francesca Rosi, Costanza Miliani, John Delaney, Kathryn Dooley, Lena Stringari, Grazina Subelyte and Luciano Pensabene Buemi]
Chapter 2 : Piero Manzoni, Achromes: An Initial Investigation into the Chemical and Technical Characterization of the Artist's Materials [Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo, Luca Bochicchio and Luisa Mensi]
Chapter 3 : 1949–1968 Concetti spaziali by Lucio Fontana: A Historical-artistic and Technical Study [Barbara Ferriani, Luca Massimo Barbero and Francesca Caterina Izzo]
Chapter 4 : Josef Albers' Use of 20th Century Pigments: A Non-invasive Analytical Approach [Gianluca Poldi, Chiara Anselmi, Alessia Daveri and Manuela Vagnini]
Chapter 5 : From Identification to a New Insight of Preservation Theory for Contemporary Art: Innovative Approaches to Complex Care in Alina Szapocznikow Case Studies [Iwona Szmelter and Joanna Kurkowska]
Chapter 6 : The Colors of Lina Bo Bardi: Analytical Investigations of Lina's Felt-tip Pens [Antonio Mirabile, Giulia Germinario, Inez D. van der Werf, Luigia Sabbatini, Brenda Doherty and Patrizia Moretti]
Chapter 7 : “Art is Not Science”: A Study of Materials and Techniques in Five of Enrico Baj's Nuclear Paintings [Luca Bochicchio, Patrizia Moretti, Annalisa Chieli, Aldo Romani, Chiara Ruberto, Lisa Castelli, Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti, Antonio Sgamellotti and Laura Cartechini]
Chapter 8 : On Video Art Preservation: A Conversation with Fabrizio Plessi [Cosetta Saba and Lisa Parolo]
Chapter 9 : Arte Concreto Invención: Towards Industrialized Surface Aesthetics [Fernando Marte, Pino Monkes, Florencia Castellá and Marcos Tascon]
Chapter 10 : Judith Lauand: Art and Technology of a Brazilian Concrete Painter [Luiz Antonio Cruz Souza, Alessandra Rosado, Yacy-Ara Froner Gonçalves, Rita Lages Rodrigues, Humberto Farias de Carvalho, Maria Alice Sanna Castelo Branco, Giulia Giovani and Vítor Paixão Amaral]
Chapter 11 : A New Substance Under the Sun: How Synthetic Polymers Were Selected and Transformed Into Works of Art by Ângelo de Sousa, Julião Sarmento and Lourdes Castro [Maria Joao Melo, Joana Lia Ferreira, Sara Babo, Ana Isabel Pereira, Maria Elvira Callapez, María Jesús Àvila and Julião Sarmento]
Chapter 12 : Miquel Barceló: The Rotten and the Waste as a Fundamental Part of the Process [Irene Biolchini]
Chapter 13 : Explosive Beauty: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang [Rachel Rivenc, Michael Doutre, Vincent Dion and Tom Learner]
Chapter 14 : There Are: Fabre's Visual Art [Giacinto di Pietrantonio]
Chapter 15 : Hockney, Hume and Chandra: Surface, Change and Conservation [Bronwyn Ormsby, Rachel Scott, Helen Brett, Judith Lee and Rebecca Hellen]
Chapter 16 : The Deep Meaning of Poetry: Eduardo Kac's Art of the Fundamental Processes [Pier Luigi Capucci]
Chapter 17 : When Surgery Meets Conservation: The Treatment of the Multi-material Sculpture Love Me by Sarah Lucas [Fabiola Rocco, Tommaso Poli, Oscar Chiantore and Antonio Mirabile]
Chapter 18 : Diagrams, Technology and New Materials: The Scientific Nature of Loris Cecchini's Artworks [Mattia Patti, Luca Bindi, Loris Cecchini and Biancalucia Maglione]
Chapter 19 : Spectral Revisions: A Colourful Expert Conversation [Tim Otto Roth and Konrad Scheurmann]
Chapter 20 : Painting with Acrylics: José Gutiérrez, Gunther Gerzso and the Material Innovation in Mexican Contemporary Painting [Sandra Zetina, José Luis Ruvalcaba-Sil, Rebeca Barquera, Nitziné Ocampo-Ávila, Alejandro Mitrani, Miguel Maynez, Eumelia Hernández, Edgar Casanova, Adrián Mejía-González and Nuria Esturau]
Chapter 21 : Industrial Design Objects in the Museum Environment [L. Toniolo and A. Nevin]
Chapter 22 : From Context to Content: On the Preservation of Net-based Art [Domenico Quaranta]
Chapter 23 : Painted Surfaces in Contemporary Architecture [Mosè Ricci, Alessandra Battisti, Aldo Aymonino, Pio Baldi, Franco Summa and Kay Bea Jones]

• Painting - Conservation and restoration
• Painting - Expertising
• Peinture - Conservation et restauration
• Peinture - Expertise