Solvent form : art and destruction / Jared Pappas-Kelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pappas-Kelley, Jared, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc.

Art.

Art and society.

Lost arts.

Physical Description:

vii, 146 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

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.

Contents:

1 The destruction of art p. 1

2 Art and permeable moments p. 55

3 Solvent form p. 74

4 The thing that is not a thing p. 90

5 Things lie p. 114.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Pappas-Kelley, Jared. Solvent form.

ISBN:

1526129248

9781526129246

OCLC:

1086322595