A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900–1950 Technologies of the Image: Art

Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran

New England Museum Association

It includes objects that range from Elizabethan cups to works by such well-known figures as Jacob Bodendeich

Edited by Laura Muir

This book explores the history and collections of one of the most unusual rooms in early America

A Laboratory for Art: Harvard’s Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900–1950 Technologies of the Image: ArtPublished in 2010 Harvard Universitys Fogg Museum was the rst American museum with a scientically based conservation and research department. During a period of immense growth of collections in the United States, director Edward W. Forbes and associate director Paul J. Sachs developed the Fogg into a vital training ground for a new breed of museum professional attuned to the materials of art and the eects of environment. A Laboratory for Art is the