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The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection Victoria Gardner Coates

The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection By Victoria Gardner Coates

The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection by Victoria Gardner Coates


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Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually considered places where we can most directly experience the daily lives of ancient Romans. This book explores Pompeii as a modern obsession, in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present.

The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection Summary

The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection by Victoria Gardner Coates

It is a fascinating survey of the modern obsession with the destruction of Pompeii as seen through the eyes or artists. Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually considered places where we can most directly experience the daily lives of ancient Romans. Rather than present these sites as windows to the past The Last Days of Pompeii explores Pompeii as a modern obsession, in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present. Through cultural appropriation and projection, outstanding visual and literary artists of the last three centuries have made the ancient catastrophe their own, expressing contemporary concerns in diverse media - from paintings, prints, and sculpture, to theatrical performances, photography, and film. This lavishly illustrated volume - featuring the works of artists such as Fragonard, Kaufmann, Duchamp, Dali, and Warhol - surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination.

The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection Reviews

[This volume] explores the obsession that visual artists over the past three centuries have had with the ruined city.--Easy Reader Sumptuously illustrated in combination with topical essays, this volume shows how artists and scholars responded to the town's reemergence from the dead.--Choice This brilliantly illustrated text presents images from the modern memory of Pompeii that focus on its decadence, its unexpectedness, and the sense that maybe cosmic justice had been served.--Book News The [book's] great strength . . . is the generous attention paid to modern art and its response to the Pompeii motif.--Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About Victoria Gardner Coates

Victoria C. Gardner Coates received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania where she has been a lecturer and visiting scholar. Kenneth Lapatin is associate curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Jon L. Seydl is the Paul J. and Edith Ingalls Vignos, Jr. Curator of European Painting and Sculpture, 1500-1800, at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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GOR008821763
9781606061152
1606061151
The Last Days of Pompeii - Decadence, Apocalypse, Ressurrection by Victoria Gardner Coates
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Getty Trust Publications
20120906
256
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