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Detonography: The Explosive Art of Evelyn Rosenberg

Detonography: The Explosive Art of Evelyn Rosenberg

Rosenberg, Evelyn
Trotter, John

Hardcover

Individual ArtistsSculpture & Installation

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ISBN10: 0826353606
ISBN13: 9780826353603
Publisher: Unm Press
Published: Sep 1 2013
Pages: 112
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 10.30 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Artist Evelyn Rosenberg invented a remarkable technique to make sculpture by forming metal with plastic explosives. After many months of experiments in the mid-1980s with an Israeli explosives engineer, she discovered how to refine this unique process to make large-scale, intricately designed works of art and named the new art form Detonography. Working in the New Mexico desert, near where the first atomic bomb was tested at the Trinity Site, she transforms powerful weapons of destruction into tools of creation.

In this book, the first to showcase her work, she describes the history and genesis of Detonography and explains from conception to installation how a piece of explosive art is made. Her method is documented step by step with the richly detailed photography of John Trotter, a personal history, and an essay by Gideon Sivan, the explosives expert whose technical work served as Rosenberg's original inspiration.

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