CAR Volume 4 is now published
The Contemporary Art Network (CAN!) is happy to announce that Volume 4 of the Contemporary Art Review (CAR) is now published and available for free on our website: https://resources.culturalheritage.org/contemporaryartreview/volume-4-2024/.
Volume 4 compiles post-prints from the 52nd annual meeting of the American Institute for Conservation held in Salt Lake City, Utah, and contains seven papers:
- Susan Costello and Georgina Rayner's article "Preservation of the Plastic Objects in the Harvard Art Museums’ Fluxus Collection"
- Lauren Fly and Samantha Springer's article "A Framework for Sustainable Courier Practices: Developing a Contract Courier Workshop and Network"
- Sonia Jerez Fraj, Alex Masalles Rivera, and Núria Oriols Pladevall's article "Plastilina or Plasticine: Study of an Unpublished Sculpture by Ismael Smith in the Context of Industrial Modeling Pastes Invented During the Late Nineteenth Century"
- Markéta Krausová and Evelyne Snijders' article "Embracing Angel’s Orbit: Replication as a Tool for Preservation of the Integral Hologram Angel by Simone Forti and Lloyd Cross"
- Caroline Longo, Flavia Perugini, Mario Santana Quintero, Elyse Hamp, Damiano Aiello, and Luigi Barazzetti's article "Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden: Photogrammetry as an Aide in Documentation"
- Kaela Nurmi, Nicholas Ecker, and Elisse Brautigam's extended abstract "Blinking Outside the Box: The Treatment of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Structure in Nine Parts, Each Containing a Work of Art by Other Artists, 1963"
- Catherine H. Stephens, Kyna Biggs, Soon Kai Poh, and Lynda Zycherman's extended abstract "Does the Nose Know? Challenges and Successes During a Study of Montien Boonma’s House of Hope"
CAN! would like to thank the team of reviewers, editors, and Spanish translators who contributed to this volume: Sarah Barack, Joy Bloser, Gabrielle Crowther, Dan Finn, Rebecca Gridley, Libby Ireland, Ellen Moody, Samantha Owens, Katrina Posner, Megan Randall, Crystal Sanchez, Martha Singer, and Catherine Stephens, as well as Beatriz Haspo and the team at APOYOnline: David Cohen, Vera de la Cruz, María del Rosario Mollinedo, Irene Delaveris, Mirasol Estrada, Estibaliz Guzman, Josefa Orrego, Mónica Pérez, Amparo Rueda, Ramón Sánchez, Sarah Sequeira, and Soledad Tancoff.
Austin Anderson, Jess Walthew, and adrian hernandez
Co-Editors of the CAN! Contemporary Art Review