Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age

by Heather Davis and Leila Alieva

From Ernst Haeckel to Wolfgang Tillmans: how oil has fueled the imaginations of artists and photographers

Like no other raw material, oil pervades every area of our life. Oil is how we stay alive and how we get around. Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age approaches the vast complexity of oil's place in our lives by exploring how it has inspired art and artists. Surveying the work of 250 artists from antiquity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3753300969
• ISBN13: 9783753300962
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Walther Konig Verlag
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.7" x 9.3"