Solvent form : art and destruction /

Solvent form : art and destruction /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Pappas-Kelley, Jared, vauthor.
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Manchester scholarship online
Subject:	Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. Art and society. Lost arts. Art and society. Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. Lost arts. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12021236

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ISBN:	9781526129253 1526129256 1526141922 9781526141927 1526129248 9781526129246
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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:	Print version: PAPPAS-KELLEY, JARED. SOLVENT FORM. [Place of publication not identified] : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 2018 1526129248

Table of Contents:

Front matter; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; The destruction of art; Art and permeable moments; Solvent form; The thing that is not a thing; Things lie; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index