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Proceedings of the Forum on the Conservation of Thangkas
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Title page, Table of Contents, Preface
Session 1: Conservation of Thangkas: Sacred and In Situ
- Documenting Thangkas: A Conservation Strategy (full article), by Sanjay Dhar (abstract only)
- Restoring Bhutanese Thangkas (full article), by Ephraim Jose (abstract only)
- Conservation of Thangkas: Preserving a Living Religious Heritage (full article), by Sabine Cotte (abstract only)
- Presenting, Handling and Treating Sacred Thangkas According to Western Standards and Respecting their Cultural Context – An Achievable Common Purpose? (full article), by Ute Griesser (abstract only)
- The Continuously Evolving Form of Thangkas (full article), by Ann Shaftel (abstract only)
- Conservation of Thangkas (abstract), by Regina Knaller
Session 2: Thangkas in Collections: Case Studies and Approaches
- Conservation of Thangkas in the National Museum, New Delhi (full article), by Kamlesh Kumar Gupta (abstract only)
- Conservation of Thangka Paintings: A Cultural Heritage from the Himalayan Region (full article), by C. B. Gupta (abstract only)
- Thangka Conservation at INTACH, Delhi, India (full article), by Nilabh Sinha (abstract only)
- Restoration and Conservation of Tibetan and Nepalese Thangkas (full article), by Alan Farancz (abstract only)
- Conservation of Tibetan Thangka Paintings from the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (full article), by Mike Wheeler and Teresa Heady (abstract only)
- A Non-traditional Reversible and Transparent Display Mount for a Thangka with Significant Inscriptions on the Back of Primary Image (full article), by Joyce Ertel Hulbert (abstract only)
- A Shatrunjaya ‘Tirtha Pata’: A Monumental Jain Pilgrimage Painting in the Ethnographic Museum, Antwerp, Belgium (full article), by Elsje Janssen and Françoise Therry (abstract only)
Session 3: Thangkas: Analyses of Materials
- Thangka Production in the 18th - 21st Centuries: Documenting the Introduction of Non-traditional Materials into Himalayan Painting Practice (full article), by Jennifer Mass, Jo-Fan Huang, Betty Fiske, Ann Shaftel, Xian Zhang, Richard Laursen, Courtney Shimoda, Catherine Matsen and Christina Bisulca (abstract only)
- Understanding Tibetan Painting Materials: An Intermuseum Project (abstract), by Beth Price, Boris Pretzel, Katherine Paul, Catherine Higgitt, Ken Sutherland and Xian Zhang
- Asian Organic Colorants (abstract), by Cecily Grzywacz
- Documenting a Tibetan Wall Painting Reproduction (abstract), by Mikkel Scharff and Peder Bøllingtoft
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