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Painting Materials : A Short Encyclopaedia
Item No: 151:0486215970
Category: 42
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Authors: Rutherford J. Gettens & George L. Stout
ISBN: 0486215970
Publisher: Dover Publications, New York, 1942
Size: 135 x 215 mm (5.375 x 8.5 in.); 333 pages, Paperback.
The book is divided into five sections: Mediums, Adhesives, and Film Substances (amber, beeswax, casein, cellulose nitrate, dragon's blood, egg tempera, paraffin, lacquer, gum arabic, Strasbourg turpentine, water glass, etc.); Pigments and Inert Materials (over 100 entries from alizarin to zinnober green); Solvents, Diluents, and Detergents (acetone, ammonia, carbon tetrachloride, soap, water, etc.); Supports (academy board, dozens of different woods, esparto grass, gesso, glass, leather, plaster, silk, vellum, etc.); and Tools and Equipment.
Coverage within each section is exhaustive. Thirteen pages are devoted to items relating to linseed oil; 11 to the history and physical and chemical properties of pigments; two to artificial ultramarine blue; 11 to wood; and so on with hundreds of entries. Much of the information-physical behavior, earliest known use, chemical composition, history of synthesis, refractive index, etc. -- is dificult to find elsewhere. The rest was drawn from such a wide range of fields and from such a long span of time that the book was immediately hailed as the best organized, most accessible work of its kind.
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