Marking the completion of the EU-funded research initiative ‘Cleaning Modern Oil Paints’ (2015-2018), this book addresses conservation challenges particularly associated with twentieth- and twenty-first-century oil paintings. These challenges are distinct from those found in paintings from previous centuries. Phenomena that have been recently observed include the formation of vulnerable surface ‘skins’ of medium on paint surfaces, efflorescence, unpredictable water and solvent sensitivity, and alarming incidences of dripping paints several years after the paintings have been completed. Many of these paintings are also unvarnished, rendering their surfaces particularly vulnerable. The book is a follow up  on ‘Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint’ (Springer, 2014) and focuses on recent research and emerging practice in the conservation of sensitive contemporary oil paint surfaces and the condition of oil paintings seen from various perspectives. A particular focus is placed on the practice of conservation and how knowledge is transferred from conservators to researchers and vice versa. weiterlesen