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Book review: Museums and Design Education: Looking to Learn, Learning to See [PDF]
This timely book, exploring a range of conceptual connections between HE learning and museum settings, is edited by three colleagues (two Research Fellows and an HE Officer) from the Centre for Excellence in Design (CELTD).
Butcher, John
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One‐Class Autoencoders for Porcelain Art Attribution: The Case of William Billingsley
ABSTRACT This comprehensive study explores the application of advanced machine learning techniques, specifically one‐class autoencoders, for the authentication and attribution of English porcelain artworks. Focusing primarily on the works of William Billingsley (1758–1828), one of England's most celebrated porcelain decorators, we demonstrate how ...
Hassan Ugail +3 more
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Conserving micromosaics from the Gilbert collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a challenge due to their complex structure and fragility. Their highly polished decorative surface prevents access to the substrate, yet deterioration can affect ...
Julia Brand, Carmen Vida, Lucia Burgio
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Investigating the impact of cleaning treatments on polystyrene using SEM, AFM and ToF–SIMS
Concerns about the stability of plastic artefacts are commonly expressed when discussing the conservation of modern materials. One of the factors affecting the degradation of plastics is the presence of soil, degradation products and other contaminants ...
Anna L. Fricker +3 more
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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The drawing for the main façade of the Sanctuary of Saronno in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London is quite unknown, except for a mention by Maria Cristina Loi.
Francesco Repishti
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Our paper addresses the problem of “How to predict where a tree can be found from its traits?” We show that wood density, bark thickness, maximum height and seed mass combine for a useful model of tree distributions. ABSTRACT Trait‐Species Distribution Models (trait‐SDM) help to understand the importance of plant strategies to niches, assess their ...
Peter A. Vesk +6 more
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Nota sulla mostra di arte grafica cinese China Design Now al Victoria and Albert Museum e sulla città di Shenzhen.
Lina Unali
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The Use of Scanning XRF to Map the Reduction in Foxing Stains on Paper with Chelating Agents
To reduce staining, paper conservators have increasingly treated artworks on paper with enhanced washing using chelating agents, which form complexes with metallic ions, thus facilitating the removal of stains.
Elizabeth La Duc, Kiri Douglas
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Archives of impact: The politics of craters on Earth
This paper examines Earth’s 195 confirmed impact craters as archives, exploring their cataloguing and presentation as heritage sites. It argues Western scientific framings using military language and emphasising catastrophe overlook settler colonialism’s violent histories and marginalise indigenous earth‐sky cosmologies.
Gareth Hoskins
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