In one of its most absorbing sections, the book suggests that, in the avant-garde imaginary, that Aegean island (also the place of an extraordinary pre-classical civilization) came to be viewed as "a floating land of eruption and artistic experimentation".
Though one would hardly call Mapplethorpe's vision innocent, he could not have foreseen the specific political eruptions his artistic sensibilities activated.
They are, rather, the great achievement of an artistic old age, a final eruption comparable in their power to the late works of Beethoven, Matisse, Rembrandt or Turner.
Regardless of artistic style, paintings created soon after volcanic eruptions had redder skies than those painted during periods of low volcanic activity, the researchers report online today in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
The next full-scale eruption came during Kirstein's ill-fated struggle for artistic power at City Center, in the early fifties.
The Romanian new wave has noticeably slowed down since its mid-noughties eruption, the lack of local acknowledgement might be one reason why; every artistic movement needs nourishment from the grassroots (Mungiu, in his recent interview with Xan Brooks, pinpoints the lack of film theatres in the country as a crucial problem area).
In its meticulously composed wide-screen frames, periodically disrupted by eruptions of fury and heartache, you can see the rock-solid artistic confidence that would lead to "There Will Be Blood," a grimy capitalist opera that pulverizes sweetness and spews black humor like crude oil.
The eruptions altered dramatically the morphology of the mountain, as it can be deduced from the artistic representation shown in Fig. 3.
