Conservation and Restoration of Graphic Documents
Code
12248
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Department
Departamento de Conservação e Restauro
Credits
6.0
Teacher in charge
Maria da Conceição Lopes Casanova
Weekly hours
6
Teaching language
Português
Objectives
With this Curricular Unit we intent to give students the necessary skills for conservation restoration interventions on Graphic Documents, covering the main steps, techniques and methods available to Conservators of Graphic Documents (e.g., cleaning, stabilisation, consolidation, reintegration, pressing and storage, etc.); and developing critic thought and the theoretical and practical capabilities that allow them to examine, select and do conservation and restoration treatments of objects or mock-ups, autonomously and according to standard ethic principles.
The student will have the opportunity to develop the critic approach, regarding different conservation options, including the conservation materials selection and procedures evaluation, at least, in a specific object; carrying out in a detailed and complete way the Conservation Documentation of the treated object. The state of conservation and the diagnosis of the object (including objects technique and materials composition), the conservation proposal and the treatment report, with a full photographic record of the object, before, during and after treatment, should make part of the Conservation Documentation, as well as the analyses and exams made for the objects study and its characterization.
Main attention will be giving to the students ability to argue the advantages and disadvantages related to treatment decision, applied on the selected objects, through different case-studies presentation and the discussion of various treatment options, at class environment.
Prerequisites
The student should do the "Graphic Documents Diagnosis and Conservation" discipline, previously.
Subject matter
Principal syllabus
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Professional ethics considerations and Graphic Document treatments philosophy: from archives and libraries materials to works of at on paper;
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Technological and material characterization of different Graphic Documents typology and selection of objects for study and treatment.
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Diagnosis and conservation state of the object understudy and Conservation Documentation preparation
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Graphic Documents Conservation and Restoration: principal concepts and cleaning methods, Stabilization and consolidation methods, Storage and environmental methods for future preservation.
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Treatment and ''decision making'' process for the case-studies: Ethical rules and value and significance meaning of the object, considering its historic characteristics and the object function evolution; Risks evaluation, considering the conservation state of objects; Selection and justification for treatment materials and procedures chosen, Treatment practical methodologies application - cleaning needs evaluation, stabilization, consolidation, pressing and storage of the objects under study.
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Evaluation of preventive conservation needs and discussion of results achieved with the treatment of the objects under study.
Bibliography
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The Paper Conservator
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TAPPI - technical association for pulp, paper, and converting industry;
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AIC Paper Conservation Catalog;
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Restaurator