Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage - Understanding and Characterization

This book will form a standard text for all emerging conservators working through their training programs around the world, for it covers all the elements that have been missing from other books of a similar vein. --Ian D. MacLeod, AICCM Bulletin (Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material) The only publication I am aware of that fills the void in discussing the range of modern metals commonly encountered in a conservation context. It is a long-awaited, greatly needed, and appreciated contribution to the field. This book is not a how-to conservation guide, rather a fundamental encyclopedia of modern metals and their properties. It presents scientific aspects of metals at a level that is readily accessible for conservators. --Eleonora Nagy, Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC) As modern materials are found more often within museums and heritage institutions, it becomes important to have resources like Modern Metals in Cultural Heritage, which allows conservators and curators to make sense of these new materials for the purposes of characterisation and conservation. --Thomas Wicks, Journal of the Institute of Conservation A valuable addition to the bookshelves of metal conservators and curators, and a useful foundation for conservation students, in their first contact with these areas. --Isabel Tissot, Conservar Patrimonio