You have reached the BOOK LIST and LIBRARY section of my website
I will try to build the list in a few sections. Please check out the other website: FineArtCosnervation.info where I plan to build a more ideal site explaining conservation issues, art history and art making techniques. I love my personal library, I organize (divide) my books in order of subject and usefulness. I can almost go to any section and find the book I remember very quickly. I recommend any young person, student owner of books to use the "Dewey Decimal System, as it is based on Subject, created in 1876. I will have a PDF here soon, explaining the advatages. I considered the Library of Congress Classification System, however as a small library, the Dewey is better for me. I will give Dewey Decimal numbers to my books, but only after a proper cover or system of adding a spine tab is developed. Students, save your school text books, and begin to build your art and science library. I have thirty years so far, a wealth of information I am now trying to share. Yes, I know the internet is great, I have Googled and Binged things but find the book-in-hand is still more informative.
Section One: ---- Books recommended for begining ART and Conservation students. Section Two: ------More books about conservation, but with more detail. Section Three: ----Story time / Easy reading of Art History of Artists and conservation.
So many books have influenced me over the years. I like to take this time to thank all the people who took the time to write about history, fine art conservation and the processes of making art! As a somewhat creative child, I played with building things, drawing ( as many kids do as we grow up); I often took things apart to figure how and why they worked, only to put them back together again, (for example, my old speed bikes- the derailleur, brakes; all my cars- engines and motorcycles, fixing this and that, and for about 15 years now, building computers from individual parts...) all these things give great pleasure... just like fixing art. I loved all my art classes, from drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, sculpture, ceramics---all dealing with the creation - the process of set patterns and formulations, the mixing of colors and surfaces to build a work of art. I love being an Art Conservator! And Books, are in a brief way, in the reading of words, a way to get a glimpse of the writer's thoughts... to learn about how something is created. In noway, does the written word teach everything about art or architecture. But with reading we can learn and build on our own development for creating, ie understanding and ...in my case, the fixing, preservation, the repair or conservation of works of art. And the whole idea is for the future cultures/people to enjoy and grow. Long live Art Conservation.
Section One: books being recommended reading for begining conservation students.
"A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques" by Ralph Mayer first copywright 1969 my book was published in 1981 and bought it for $8.95 in August 1989 ISBN: 0-06-463531-7 It is a great book, really one of the first books to own of ART terms with wonderful pictures! Date added to list: 20090713
Section Two:
Forcoming titles
Section Three:
"LOOT" The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World By Sharon Waxman Times Books; 414 pages; $ 30 Date added to list: 20071207 ( did you see the MET's Greek Craters are now as of 2008, returned to Greece, and there are four 'new" Greek pots here at the MET galleries. I miss the old ones--- because I loved looking at the surfaces and design from such a long time ago. But understand the issues and that people should not steal or sell national collections. Yea, I know how that sounds. )