Light for Art's Sake

Christopher Cuttle (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2007
Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7506-6430-1 (ISBN)

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Provides a basis for a level of professional expertise for lighting practice in museums. This work focuses on the concept that the interaction of light and art media is the source for visual experience and the degradation of the artwork. It includes philosophical, conservation, and practical aspects of lighting design for museums and galleries.

Conservation scientists in museums and galleries have a clear understanding of the damage that light can inflict on an object, but what of the designers that create exhibitions to display these precious items? Light for Arts Sake provides a basis for a level of professional expertise for lighting practice in museums.
Rather than portraying conservation and display as having diametrically opposed objectives, the central concept is that the interaction of light and art media is the source for both the visual experience and the degradation of the artwork. Optimal solutions derive from understanding and controlling the interaction process, and the need is for the level of understanding among lighting professionals to be brought closer to that found among conservation scientists.

Christopher "Kit" Cuttle is currently Senior Lecturer in Architectural Technology at the University of Auckland. From 1957 he worked as a specialist architectural lighting designer and advisor, and since 1976 he has been lecturing on the subject in New Zealand, the UK and the US. He holds qualifications in illumination, electrical engineering and architecture, and has published 100 papers and articles on lighting.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Philosophy
Chapter Two: Visual attributes
Chapter Three: Damage
Chapter Four: Daylighting typologies
Chapter Five: Daylighting controls
Chapter Six: Electric lighting typologies
Chapter Seven: Electric lighting controls
Chapter Eight: Lighting strategies
Chapter Nine: Procedures for practice
References
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.3.2007
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	189 x 246 mm
Gewicht	720 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	0-7506-6430-4 / 0750664304
ISBN-13	978-0-7506-6430-1 / 9780750664301
Zustand	Neuware