TY - BOOK ID - 78647925 TI - Solvent form : art and destruction PY - 2019 SN - 1526141922 1526129256 9781526129253 9781526141927 1526129248 9781526129246 1526129264 PB - Manchester Manchester University Press DB - UniCat KW - Art and society. KW - Art KW - Defacement of art KW - Mutilation of art KW - Malicious mischief KW - Mutilation KW - Vandalism KW - Art and sociology KW - Society and art KW - Sociology and art KW - Mutilation, defacement, etc. KW - Defacement KW - Social aspects KW - art [fine art] KW - defacement KW - mutilation KW - philosophy of art KW - art [discipline] KW - Art and loss. KW - Art. KW - Contemporary art. KW - Destruction of art. KW - Destruction. KW - Disappearance. KW - Gallery of lost art. KW - Georges Bataille. KW - Georges Perec. KW - Jake and Dinos Chapman. KW - Lost Art. KW - Momart warehouse fire. KW - Momart. KW - Remainder. KW - Sacrifice. KW - Sarah Winchester. KW - Solvency. KW - Tom McCarthy. KW - Winchester Mystery House. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78647925 AB - 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. ER -