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Alexis Rockman
Naples: Course of Empire
Time itself as protagonist: this publication, dedicated exclusively to Alexis Rockman's Naples cycle, presents the entire development of the seven panoramic paintings in great detail. By connecting art history with pressing contemporary realities, climate science and ecological collapse, the cycle paints a new picture of our civilisation.
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Rather than presenting history as linear progress, the cycle unfolds as recurrence: creation, eruption, collapse and transformation repeating across vastly different scales of time. Alongside the paintings the book presents Rockman’s field drawings made with volcanic material from Mount Vesuvius. These works function as both studies and records of direct contact between image and geology. Together, they form a contemporary Course of Empire where civilisation is revealed as a brief, combustible phase within a far larger planetary story.
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Ed. Alexis Rockman
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Essays by D. Spears
112 pages, 60 illustrations20,3 x 25,4 cm, Hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-4786-5
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Ithaca
| Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
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