Lee, Judith;
Ireland, Libby;
Townsend, Joyce H;
Ormsby, Bronwyn;
Bartoletti, Angelica;
Cane, Deborah;
Da Ros, Simoni;
... Curran, Katherine; + view all
(2023)
Exploring the Materials and Condition of 20th-Century Dolls in Zoe Leonard's Mouth Open, Teeth Showing 2000.
Polymers
, 15
(1)
, Article 34. 10.3390/polym15010034.
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Abstract
Systematic condition and analytical surveys were carried out on Zoe Leonard’s (b. 1961) Mouth Open, Teeth Showing 2000, an installation artwork in Tate’s collection consisting of 162 children’s dolls. The dolls were manufactured at various points within the 20th century and encompass several potentially problematic synthetic polymers found in modern and contemporary museum collections. To explore the doll materials and conservation condition, a multi-analytical approach was used to identify key synthetic polymer types and additives present, including portable and bench analytical techniques. Challenging degradation phenomena associated with different types of doll have been discussed and related to their material composition, which has helped our understanding of the conservation challenges inherent to this contemporary artwork.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Exploring the Materials and Condition of 20th-Century Dolls in Zoe Leonard's Mouth Open, Teeth Showing 2000 |
| Location: | Switzerland |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/polym15010034 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15010034 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Polymer Science, twentieth-century dolls, plastic, degradation, conservation, contemporary art, HISTORIC CELLULOSE TRIACETATE, POLY(VINYL CHLORIDE), HERITAGE COLLECTIONS, CINEMATOGRAPHIC FILM, PLASTICIZED PVC, DEGRADATION, IDENTIFICATION, ADDITIVES, POLYMERS, SAMPLES |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164343 |
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