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EARLY PLASTIC DEGRADATION
ENLARGE | At left, wax used as a molding release has migrated past the polyvinyl chloride skin of this 1960s doll, leaving a blotchy white coating. The series of images at right shows the stages of degradation of Antoine Pevsner’s 1923 “Head of a Woman,” made of nitrocellulose plastic. Credit: Courtesy of the hirshhorn museum; John lee/National Museum of Denmark, which is part of POPART

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