Re: PVA vs RB Glue

In Reply to: Re: PVA vs RB Glue posted by James Morton on 08/23/00 at 12:27 PM:


: I think your original question has been adequately dealt with and need not be continued. I also think that the controversies that have developed from your original post are more important and of wider implication than that original question and ought to be persued i.e. are the "archival" qualities of the artwork more important than the "artistic" qualities , are these mutually exclusive or can they coincide, and the ancillary question which is should should the findings of conservation science hold more weight than the less scientific more "touchy feely" revelations of practicing painters where durability is less important than the handling qualities and the effect of the use of certain materials and methods.

Hi James. Thanks for your contributions to my question. Yeah, you could be right about the larger issue of all this stuff. As I said earlier way back somewhere, I think craft and artistry go hand in hand. Neither is more important than the other. Seems to me that art, in recent times, has emphasized the "touchy feely" at the expense of craft, and the result is that there's a lot of conflicting ideas about what's important, structurally and all that. The gray area for me is traditional vs contemporary materials, which was the motivation behind my glue question. The art theory side is more subjective, and if a simple question about glue sizing generated so much heat...well, I'd just as soon stay away from that one.
 
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