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Light allows us not only to see the works of art, but also to take care of them and preserve them for future generations, through diagnosis of the degradation and deterioration phenomena, conservation treatments, and monitoring based on light-material interaction processes. Recent progress on this subject was discussed during the 13th International Conference on Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks (LACONA XIII, Florence, Italy, 12-16 September 2022). This volume includes selected contributions presented at the conference on preservation topics, photonic techniques, and optimization methods. In particular, the papers focus on the development and use of innovative spectroscopic and imaging characterization techniques, the diagnostic knowledge of important artworks, and the optimization of the laser solution for preserving a growing variety of cultural assets, such as stone and metal artefacts, painted surfaces, textile, feather, and plastic artefacts. Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks XIII aims at scholars and operators of the community of preservation of cultural heritage, at teachers and students of training courses on diagnostic and conservation methods, applied physics, and chemistry, as well as archaeology and art history.

Art objects --- Lasers in conservation and restoration --- Conservation and restoration

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"This catalogue provides a general introduction to amber in the ancient world followed by detailed catalogue entries for fifty-six Etruscan, Greek, and Italic carved ambers from the J. Paul Getty Museum. The volume concludes with technical notes about scientific investigations of these objects and Baltic amber"--Provided by publisher.

Art objects --- Art objects, Etruscan --- Art objects, Ancient --- Amber art objects --- J. Paul Getty Museum --- Etruscan art objects --- Bric-a-brac --- Objects, Art --- Objets d'art --- Art --- Decoration and ornament --- Decorative arts --- Object (Aesthetics) --- Antiques --- Getty (J. Paul) Museum. --- Getty Museum --- JPGM --- Museo J. Paul Getty --- History of the arts

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For too long, the Earth has been used to ground thought instead of bending it; such grounding leaves the planet as nothing but a stage for phenomenology, deconstruction, or other forms of anthropocentric philosophy. In far too much continental philosophy, the Earth is a cold, dead place enlivened only by human thought—either as a thing to be exploited, or as an object of nostalgia. Geophilosophy seeks instead to question the ground of thinking itself, the relation of the inorganic to the capacities and limits of thought. This book constructs an eclectic variant of geophilosophy through engagements with digging machines, nuclear waste, cyclones and volcanoes, giant worms, secret vessels, decay, subterranean cities, hell, demon souls, black suns, and xenoarcheaology, via continental theory (Nietzsche, Schelling, Deleuze, et alia) and various cultural objects such as horror films, videogames, and weird Lovecraftian fictions, with special attention to Speculative Realism and the work of Reza Negarestani. In a time where the earth as a whole is threatened by ecological collapse, On an Ungrounded Earth generates a perversely realist account of the earth as a dynamic engine materially invading and upsetting our attempts to reduce it to merely the ground beneath our feet.

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Art objects --- Cultural property --- Objets d'art --- Patrimoine culturel --- Conservation and restoration --- Protection --- Conservation et restauration

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Le 4 août 1897, des ouvriers agricoles découvrent à La Alcudia, site de l’antique Ilici (Elche, au sud de la province d’Alicante), une sculpture ibérique datant du ve-ive siècle av. J.-C. et connue sous le nom de Dame d’Elche. Sa singularité et « l’étrangeté troublante de sa beauté » (Pierre Paris) attirent l’attention des archéologues européens. Très vite considérée comme le chef-d’œuvre de l’art ibérique, la statue devient une source d’inspiration pour les artistes et, sous la plume des idéologues régionalistes et nationalistes espagnols, une icône identitaire. Le but de cet ouvrage, écrit par un archéologue et une anthropologue, n’est pas seulement de dire ce qu’était la Dame dans l’Antiquité mais aussi et surtout ce qu’elle est devenue pour les hommes et les femmes de notre époque qui se sont interrogés sur elle, l’ont admirée, aimée et souvent réinventée. Descubierta por casualidad en 1897 y posteriormente presentada en el Louvre y el Museo del Prado, la Dama de Elche es considerada no sólo una obra maestra del arte ibérico sino también un icono identitario. Escrito por una antropóloga y un arqueólogo, este ensayo examina la recepción histórica, ideológica y artística de esta escultura, las interpretaciones y reacciones afectivas que la Dama ha suscitado desde su descubrimiento hasta el día de hoy, así como los usos sociales y políticos de la estatua.

Sculpture, Iberian --- Portrait sculpture, Ancient --- Art objects --- Reproduction --- Political aspects --- Dama de Elche (Sculpture) --- Arts & Humanities --- Sculpture ibérique --- nationalisme --- identité locale --- patrimoine --- sacralisation --- escultura ibérica --- nacionalismo --- identidad local --- patrimonio --- sacralización