A technical analysis of three paintings attributed to jackson pollock

Studies in Conservation

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 204-215

  Khandekar, Narayan ^a   Mancusi Ungaro, Carol ^a   Cooper, Harry ^b   Rosenberger, Christina ^a,c   Eremin, Katherine ^a   Smith, Kate ^d   Stenger, Jens ^a   Kirby, Dan ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Museum of Fine Arts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMULSIFICATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION OF GASES; ISOMERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECTROMETRY;

BUTYL METHACRYLATES; EMULSION COPOLYMERS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROMETRY; LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION; N-BUTYL METHACRYLATE; PYROLYSIS-GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY- MASS SPECTROMETRIES; TECHNICAL ANALYSIS; TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROSCOPY;

FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY;

POLLACHIUS;

EID: 77958067584     PISSN: 00393630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/sic.2010.55.3.204     Document Type: Article

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