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Detonography
Evelyn Rosenberg
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Description for Detonography
Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 254 x 18. Weight in Grams: 748.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826353603
SKU
V9780826353603
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About Evelyn Rosenberg
Evelyn Rosenberg’s sculpture is on display in more than forty public locations throughout the world. Its distinctive beauty at the intersection of art and science represents two worlds that have shaped the culture of New Mexico, where the artist lives and works. She has received numerous awards for her contribution to the arts, including the prestigious New Mexico Governor’s Awards ... Read more
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