Solvent form : art and destruction /

Solvent form : art and destruction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pappas-Kelley, Jared, author.
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
Description:	vii, 146 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. Art and society. Lost arts. Art and society. Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11773861

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ISBN:	1526129248 9781526129246 9781526129260 9781526129253
Notes:	Includes bibliography and index.
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.
Other form:	Electronic version: Pappas-Kelley, Jared. Solvent form. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019 9781526129253

Table of Contents:

List of figures
Ackowledgmets
1. The destruction of art
2. Art and permeable moments
3. Solvent form
4. The thing that is not a thing
5. Things lie
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index