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Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A DELIGHTFUL MIX OF CONTEMPORARY AUSSIE ART AND ARTISTS, COLOURFUL,BRIGHT AND MOST OF ALL OPTIMISTIC.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1999 British Museum Press large format out of print paperback edition. Light reading wear else good condition. Contents: 1. Does Reversibility Exist in Conservation? 2. Drawing the Line - Reversibility and Compromise in the Conservation of Arms and Armour 3. Is Reversibility an Option when Conserving Industrial Collections? 4. Restoration or Repair? The Dilemma of Ancient Scientific Instruments 5. Understanding Reversibility in Natural Science Collections 6. Back to Plastics 7. Plastic Surgery: Conservation Treatments for Flexible Polyurethane Foams: From Face-Lift to Donating the Corpse to Science 8. Volatile Binding Media - Useful Tools for Conservation 9. Restoration - A Kaleidoscope through History 10. Imperfect Reversibility in Paper Conservation 11. Questions of Reversibility in the Conservation of Paintings on Canvas 12. Aspects of Reversibility in Transferred Wall Paintings 13. Materials for Wall Paintings Conservation: Change of Physicochemical Properties, Ageing Effects, and Reversibility 14. Treatment of Previously Deacidified Paper Artifacts 15. Reversibility in the Restoration of Stone Artefacts: Real Possibilities and Objective Limits 16. Reversibility: A Questionable Philosophy 17. Access as a Factor Contributing to Compromise in Conservation-Treatment Decisions 18. Swelling as an Indicator of Removability 19. Reversibility - Politics and Economics 20. Opacity Contrariwise: The Reversibility of Deteriorated Surfaces on Vessel Glass 21. Reversibility - Myth and Mis-use 22. The Search for an Ideal: Reversibility in Ceramic Conservation 23. Reversibility: The Thinking Behind the Word 24. Reversibility - Achievable Goal or Illusion 25. Museum Changes to First Nations Objects, and their Physical and Conceptual Reversibility 26. How Greater Knowledge of an Object Can Affect an Assessment of the Reversibility of Previous Treatments 27. Reversibility: Dealing with a Ghost.…