Conservation of plaster casts / edited by Jakub Ďoubal ; with Renata Tišlová, Petra Zí́tková, Pavel Mrověc, Martin Kulhánek, Barbora Glombová, Petr Rejman and Aneta Kokstejnová ; translated by Kristina Slezacek and Jakub Ďoubal.

"This book, which includes a wide range of illustrations, focuses on the issues associated with the conservation, storage and display of plaster casts, reflecting on the past and reporting on the present. It examines the role that plaster itself plays in the process of making a sculpture, outlines, the history of plaster casts and deals with the techniques of conservation including cleaning, consolidation, gluing, reintegration and preventive conservation and conservation surveys. The authors refer to the available published knowledge on the subject and add their new findings based on many years of experience and the evaluation of laboratory tests"-- Back cover.