Expression and sensibility : art technological sources and the rise of modernism : proceedings of the seventh symposium of the ICOM-CC working group on Art Technological Source Research, held at the State Academy of Fine Art and Design, Stuttgart, 10-11 November 2016 / edited by Christoph Krekel, Joyce H. Townsend, Sigrid Eyb-Green and Kathrin Pilz.

Includes bibliographic references.

Feeling the techniques of the past: establishing a link between later 19th-century French painting techniques and their historical European predecessors / Isabelle Nove -- `The golden age of the living painter 1860 -- 1914'? How debt, default and London's declining art market affected painters in the second half of the 19th century / Sally Woodcock -- `Shilling vade-mecums': watercolour painting manuals and the advancement of watercolour in Britain 1850 -- 1880 / Fiona Mann -- Italian artists' self-taught `compensation strategies' for their lack of technical training: a study on Gino Severini / Margherita d'Ayala Valva -- The disparity between sources and practice in mid-19th-century English church wall painting / Elizabeth Woolley -- The use of pigments in 19th-century oil paintings in Portugal: a comparative study of documentary sources and artists' practice / Leslie Carlyle -- `Flowing colours, protruding lines, glowing fruits in the shadows': the working processes of Arnold Bocklin and Hans von Marees / Wibke Neugebauer -- Diego Rivera's revival of encaustic painting: the use of wax in Mexican avant-garde painting / Sandra Zetina -- An introduction to a questionnaire concerning painting technique from the Silesian Museum of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, 1899 -- 1938 / Silke Beisiegel -- Evaluation of selected written sources on the painting techniques of Heinrich Campendonk and Heinrich Nauen / Jenny Annika Nieberle -- Between chance and choice: Max Ernst's frottages and grattages on canvas from the Menil Collection, Houston / Aniko Bezur -- Poisonous and unstable: iodine-based pigments in the source literature and beyond / Jilleen Nadolny -- Metallic paints and modernism: artists' writings and documentary sources / Francesca Casadio -- Presenting the technical development of painting at the Deutsches Museum, Munich / Kathrin Kinseher -- The chemist Wilhelm Ostwald (1853 -- 1932) and his wide network of contemporary art technologists / Albrecht Pohlmann -- Die Wiedergeburt der Farbe: Bruno Taut's understanding of colour / Stephanie Dietz -- How to secure the quality of artists' paints? Towards the regulation of artists' paints in Germany / Andreas Burmester -- Shorter papers from poster presentations -- Between art and science: painting technique workshops by Kurt Wehlte / Monika Kammer -- Harriet Backer: the artist's paint tubes in Uvdal stave church and her corresponding paintings / Tine Frøysaker.

The papers in this volume discuss the situation of artists during the early age of industrialization in several European countries, the benefits and challenges that the new materials brought to artistic practice and their effect on the ways in which techniques were taught in the art academies. For innovative artists the new materials were significant, but others were sceptical of the new industrial products and there was a struggle towards the standardization and documentation of working processes, paints and even aesthetic concepts.