Irresistible decay : ruins reclaimed / Michael S. Roth with Claire Lyons and Charles Merewether.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Michael S., 1957-

Contributor:

Lyons, Claire L., 1955-

Merewether, Charles.

Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.

Series:

Bibliographies & dossiers ; 2.

Bibliographies & dossiers ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruins in art--Exhibitions.

Ruins in art.

Exhibitions.

Physical Description:

xii, 109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, [1997]

Summary:

Incendiary Art uses the collections of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities - prints, drawings, illustrated books, manuscripts, and other objects - to investigate the vibrant imagery produced in an unprecedented flourishing of representations of fireworks and fireworks spectacles in Europe from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Concentrating more on the records of these events than the events themselves, Incendiary Art examines these images as vehicles of meaning within the larger context of European culture and politics, without losing sight of their status as artifacts with an independent aesthetic life. Incendiary Art examines pyrotechnics within categories ranging from the theory of the sublime, to politics, poetics, erotics, aesthetics, and volcano lust.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-104).

"This volume accompanies the exhibition, 'Irresistible Decay: Ruins Reclaimed,' held December 16, 1997, through February 22, 1998, at the Getty Center, Los Angeles"--T.p. verso.

ISBN:

0892364688

OCLC:

36746424