Edited by Gerald Ward
The Grove Encyclopedia of Materials and Techniques in
Art offers the most comprehensive, up-to-date information on all aspects of this
fundamental area of the visual arts. This reference work provides fascinating historical
and current uses of materials and techniques in a wide range of areas from painting and
sculpture to non-traditional media such as digital and video art. For anyone who
studies, creates, collects, or deals in works of art, this book is an indispensable
resource. Coverage includes materials in art practice (e.g. ink, enamel, digital
materials); materials in conservation (e.g. adhesives); classes of artifacts (e.g.
wallpaper, mosaic, ceramic); techniques and methods (e.g. book binding, gilding,
printing, weaving), terms (e.g. rustication), tools (e.g. easel, laser), theory (e.g.
technical examination, conservation controversies), fakes & forgeries, and
conservation theorists and practitioners.
Gerald W. R. Ward is the Katharine Lane
Weems Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Art of the Americas, at the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He holds degrees from Harvard University and Boston
University and formerly served as a curator at the Yale University Art Gallery and the
Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. He has curated numerous exhibitions and
published widely on American art, furniture, and decorative arts.
e-reference edition ISBN: 9780195373417
Print edition ISBN: 9780195373417
Print edition publication date:
September 2008
Publishing history: First published in September 2008
Copyright: © Oxford University Press 2008
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