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The book offers the only comprehensive discussion available on materials, techniques, and condition issues in western easel paintings from medieval times to the present. It includes detailed case studies of 25 paintings by artists from Giotto and Leonardo to Vermeer, Degas, and Pollock. The extensive illustrations are drawn from more than 45 international museums, the artists represented range from a Byzantine master and a Mexican colonial painter to living artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Jacob Lawrence, and Robert Ryman. The book will fascinate and benefit beginning or advanced students of art history and their teachers, as well as painters, collectors, museum docents, and conservators. Those who have known paintings primarily from books, slides, and photograph reproductions will be exposed to a new dimension of their study.

The principal novelty of this book is its attempt to present a balanced survey of the data of absorptions pectroscopy for organic compounds in all regions of the spectrum from far ultraviolet to far infrared. Classification of compounds according to functional groups is the basic indexing system employed. A second thesis of this work is that spectra in all regions permit a uniqueness of identification of a compound that is not achieved with infrared or ultraviolet data alone

The Korean ceramics featured in this catalog spanned from the unglazed earthenware over the earliest kingdoms to the elegant celadon and stonewere Pottery of the Goryeo dynasty to the graceful porcelains and buncheong ware of the Joseon Dynasty. As cultural artifacts they symbolize the spirit of the times in which they were created as part of a modern private collection they are a meaningful reflection of self identity.

This book is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise on the subject but is designed to serve the purpose of a laboratory textbook for the use of students in the chemical laboratories of technical schools and of colleges where technical subjects connected with this branch of higher organic chemistry are taught it is also hoped that matter will be found in it of use to chemists employed in works dealing with these synthetic dyestuffs