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Solvent form Art and destruction
Author
Title
Solvent form [electronic resource] : Art and destruction / Jared Pappas-Kelley.
ISBN
1526129256
9781526129253
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Manchester [England] : Manchester University Press, 2019. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (vii, 146 pages)) : illustrations
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
This book is about the destruction of art, both in terms of objects that have been destroyed -- lost in fires, floods or vandalism -- and the general concept of art operating through object and form. Through re-examinations of such events as the Momart warehouse fire in 2004 and the activities of art thief Stephane Breitwieser, the book proposes an idea of solvent form hinging on the dual meaning in the words solvent and solvency, whereby art, while attempting to make secure or fixed, simultaneously undoes and destroys through its inception. Ultimately, the book questions what is it that may be perceived in the destruction of art and how we understand it, and further how it might be linked to a more general failure.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2019 Global Cultural Studies.
Other formats
Print version:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 18, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-144) and index.
Contents
The destruction of art
Art and permeable moments
Solvent form
The thing is not a thing
Things lie
Epilogue.
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