anecdotes. The authors, while recognising the diversity of situations and stressing the importance of preventive conservation, reflect on the possible causes of deterioration in some works and their eventual need for interventions to be made, including measures to maintain both supports and pictorial surfaces. This section constitutes a useful summary to be consulted with the rich appendix that follows with a focus on the stretchers, canvas, gesso preparations, paints and binding formulations that Francis used, enabled by the analyses undertaken by the Sam Francis Foundation and the Getty Conservation Institute. As the authors report, the research brought to this dense publication is necessary to provoke awareness on the conservation challenges posed by the diversity of materials used by Francis in a career that produced over 1900 paintings and thousands of works on paper, made in his various far-flung studios and now spread further across the world in various public and private collections. These challenges are an opportunity to get to know his oeuvre through the research presented here where diverse perspectives are perfectly integrated. This is why the book is also highly recommended for both art history and conservation students, as it is exemplary in presenting its multifaceted research through the use of a fascinating narrative. It is impossible to carry out scientific analysis alone on an artwork without consulting any art historical sources, and it is also impossible to limit art historical research to studying the visual effects of what we see, without understanding anything of the materiality of the artwork, and what makes this book special is the way it presents this alchemy between science and poetry.

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轶事。作者在认识到情况的多样性并强调预防性保护的重要性的同时，反思了某些作品恶化的可能原因，以及他们最终需要进行干预的必要性，包括维护支撑和图案表面的措施。本节构成有用的摘要，可以通过丰富的附录进行参考，其中重点介绍了弗朗西斯使用的担架，帆布，石膏制剂，涂料和装订配方，并由萨姆·弗朗西斯基金会和盖蒂自然保护研究所进行了分析。正如作者报告的那样，出版于这本密集出版物的研究对于唤起人们对弗朗西斯在其职业生涯中所使用的材料的多样性所带来的保护挑战的认识是很必要的，弗朗西斯在他的各个遥远的工作室中创作了1900多幅画作和数千幅纸上作品，如今分布在世界各地的各种公共和私人收藏中。这些挑战是一个机会，可以通过这里提出的研究来了解他的作品，这些研究将各种观点完美地融合在一起。这就是为什么该书也强烈推荐给艺术史和自然保护学生的原因，因为它通过使用引人入胜的叙述来展示其多方面的研究，堪称典范。如果不咨询任何艺术历史资料，就不可能对艺术品进行单独的科学分析，