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Lighting for Artworks and Museum Displays
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By
Christopher Cuttle, MA, FCIBSE, FIESANZ, FIESNA, LC, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Technology, School of Architecture, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Description
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.
Audience
Readership (primary):
Museum professionals, exhibition designers, specialist lighting designers
Readership (secondary):
Conservators, architects
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: A philosophy for the presentation of art
Chapter Two: Revealing visual attributes
2.1 Light and illumination
2.2 Human response to light
2.3 Light levels in museums
2.4 Revealing with light
Chapter Three: Light-induced
damage to objects
3.1 Photochemical reactions
3.2 Radiant heating effect
3.3 Material response to exposure
3.4 Limiting exposure
Chapter
Four: Daylighting typologies
4.1 The aesthetics of daylight
4.2 Side-lit rooms
4.3 Monitor skylights
4.4 Central skylight picture galleries
4.5 Overall daylight-diffusing ceilings
4.6 Restricted daylight-diffusing ceilings
4.7 Polar-oriented skylights
4.8 Wall-lighting picture
galleries
4.9 The presence of daylight
Chapter Five: Daylighting controls
5.1 Light transmission
5.2 Light distribution
5.3 Ultraviolet
transmission
5.4 Solar heat gain
5.5 Thermal transmission
Chapter Six: Electric lighting typologies
6.1 The aesthetics of electric lighting
6.2 Room surface lighting
6.3 Lighting three-dimensional objects
6.4 Lighting two-dimensional objects
6.5 Case lighting
6.6 Supplementing
daylight
6.7 Self-luminous art objects
Chapter Seven: Electric lighting controls
7.1 Light output control
7.2 Luminaire optical control
7.3 Luminaire directional control
7.4 Lighting control systems
Chapter Eight: Lighting strategies
8.1 Ambient illumination
8.2 A sequence
of visual experiences
8.3 Minimal-exposure displays
8.4 The great space
8.5 Visual connections
Chapter Nine: Procedures for practice
9.1 A museum lighting pro forma
9.2 Setting up lighting for a new exhibition
9.3 Maintaining lighting during the life of an exhibition
References
Bibliography
Index
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Hardbound, 304 pages, publication date: MAR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6430-1
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6430-4
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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