The last days of Pompeii : decadence, apocalypse, resurrection / Victoria C. Gardner Coates, Kenneth Lapatin, Jon L. Seydl ; with contributions by Mary Beard, Adrian Stähli, William St. Clair and Annika Bautz
2012, First Edition. Los Angeles [Cleveland] : The J. Paul Getty Museum ; The Cleveland Museum of Art. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #347242
ISBN: 9781606061152
Physical description; 264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. Notes; This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu, from September 12, 2012, to January 7, 2013; at the Cleveland Museum of Art from February 24 to May 19, 2013; and at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec from June 13 to November 8, 2013. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Last days of Pompeii: decadence, apocalypse, resurrection, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, September 12, 2012, to January 7, 2013, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 24 to May 19, 2013 and at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, June 13 to November 8, 2013. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index. Contents; Decadence, apocalypse, resurrection / Jon L. Seydl -- Pompeii on display / Kenneth Lapatin -- On the cutting edge: Pompeii and new technology / Victoria C. Gardner Coates -- The making of the myths: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii / William St. Clair and Annika Bautz -- Dirty little secrets: changing displays of Pompeian "Erotica" / Mary Beard -- Pompeii on the couch: the modern fantasy of "Gradiva" / Victoria C. Gardner Coates -- Screening Pompeii: the last days of Pompeii in cinema / Adrian Stähli -- Decadence -- Apocalypse -- Resurrection -- Pompeii exhibitions. Subjects; Eruption of Vesuvius (Italy : 79). Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Art and Design. Art and history. Art, Modern Themes, motives. Disasters in art. Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Art and Design. Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Pictorial works ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) In art ; Exhibitions. Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 Influence ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) Influence ; Exhibitions. Art history. Ancient history. Disasters in art. Art and history. Art, Modern Themes, motives. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city). Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79. Italy Pompeii (Extinct city). Italy Vesuvius. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Exhibitions. Italien Vesuvius. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79. Genres; Bibliography. Catalogue. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated.
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