| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Manchester scholarship online
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 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. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc.
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Art -- Mutilation, defacement, etc. |
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Art and society.
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Art and society. |
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Lost arts.
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Lost arts. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: PAPPAS-KELLEY, JARED. SOLVENT FORM. [Place of publication not identified] : MANCHESTER UNIV PRESS, 2018 1526129248 (OCoLC)1038469927 |
| ISBN |
9781526129253 (electronic book) |
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1526129256 (electronic book) |
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1526141922 (electronic book) |
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9781526141927 (electronic book) |
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1526129248 |
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9781526129246 |
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