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, 1st edition. Los Angeles [Cleveland] : The J. Paul Getty Museum ; The Cleveland Museum of Art. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #422337
Physical description; 264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. 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; Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives. Disasters in art. Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Pictorial works ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) In art ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 Influence ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) Influence ; Exhibitions.
Price: €14.95