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.
Published / Created:
Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, c2012.
Physical Description:
264 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
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.
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.
Subject Terms:
Pompeii (Extinct city) -- In art -- Exhibitions. | Vesuvius (Italy) -- Eruption, 79 -- Exhibitions. | Disasters in art -- Exhibitions. | Art and history -- Exhibitions. | Art, Modern -- Themes, motives -- Exhibitions.
Contributors:
Gardner Coates, Victoria C. | Lapatin, Kenneth D. S. | Seydl, Jon L., 1969- | J. Paul Getty Museum. | Cleveland Museum of Art. | Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.