Irresistible decay
Subtitle: ruins reclaimed
By: Michael S. Roth with Claire Lyons and Charles Merewether.
Contributors: Lyons, Claire L., 1955-; Merewether, Charles.; Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.
Series: Bibliographies & dossiers ;; 2
Publisher: The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Los Angeles, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Ruins in art -- Exhibitions
Description: 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 (p. 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.