Machine in the Studio

Machine in the Studio

Author: Caroline A. Jones

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9780226406497

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Drawing on extensive interviews with artists and their assistants as well as close readings of artworks, Jones explains that much of the major work of the 1960s was compelling precisely because it was "mainstream" - central to the visual and economic culture of its time.


Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press

Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press

Author: Karin Breuer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780520210615

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Crown Point Press in San Francisco, founded in 1962 by Kathan Brown, is a world-renowned center of contemporary printmaking. It has published work by such major figures as Richard Diebenkorn, Helen Frankenthaler, Sol LeWitt, and Wayne Thiebaud, while bringing to attention prints by many younger artists, including April Gornik, Anish Kapoor, Eric Fischl, and Francesco Clemente. Crown Point Press is known for presenting social and political issues in a range of printmaking media, from hard- and soft-ground etching to drypoint, aquatint, and mezzotint. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco acquired the Crown Point Press archive in 1991. This collection of nearly 800 works contains one impression of every print the Press has ever produced. Also included are over 2000 working proofs and preparatory sketches. Now, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has organized an exhibition of these distinctive prints. Chronicling Crown Point Press's dedication to artistic quality and commitment to innovation in printmaking technique and subject matter, this book also presents Kathan Brown's notable contributions in transforming the printmaking landscape of the twentieth century. Published in association with The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco


Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper

Historical Perspectives in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper

Author: Margaret Holben Ellis

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 1606064320

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This book is the seventh in the Readings in Conservation series, which gathers and publishes texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage. The present volume provides a selection of more than ninety-five texts tracing the development of the conservation of works of art on paper. Comprehensive and thorough, the book relates how paper conservation has responded to the changing place of prints and drawings in society. The readings include a remarkable range of historical selections from texts such as Renaissance printmaker Ugo da Carpi’s sixteenth-century petition to the Venetian senate on his invention of chiaroscuro, Thomas Churchyard’s 1588 essay in verse “A Sparke of Frendship and Warme Goodwill,” and Robert Bell’s 1773 piece “Observations Relative to the Manufacture of Paper and Printed Books in the Province of Pennsylvania.” These are complemented by influential writings by such figures as A. H. Munsell, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida, along with a generous representation of recent scholarship. Each reading is introduced by short remarks explaining the rationale for its selection and the principal matters covered, and the book is supplemented with a helpful bibliography. This volume is an indispensable tool for museum curators, conservators, and students and teachers of the conservation of works of art on paper.


Building the Collection

Building the Collection

Author: National Gallery of Australia

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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Australia's national art collection largely took shape in the short period between the late 1960s (when the National Gallery project received the official go-ahead from government), and the building's opening in 1982. Published 20 years after that opening, these essays tell how the various collections came into being and continue to evolve. Authors include the Gallery's first three directors, James Mollison, Betty Churcher and Brian Kennedy, while other participants close to the collections' formations provide commentary and stories as varied, insightful and interesting as the collections themselves.


Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991

Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991

Author: Siri Engberg

Publisher: Hudson Hills

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9781555951634

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A study of the prints of Robert Motherwell, covering the years 1943 to 1991. This fourth edition is based on research and scholarship. In addition to cataloguing more than 500 prints in virtually every medium, it includes an essay on Motherwell's print-making, an illustrated chronology, concordance, bibliography and exhibition history. 500 colour & 100 b/w illustrations


Printmaking in America

Printmaking in America

Author: Trudy V. Hansen

Publisher:

Published: 1995-09

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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The years from 1960 to 1990 witnessed an extraordinary outburst of creative activity among American printmakers. A number of important new workshops were founded, from such influential studios as Universal Limited Art Editions as Long Island and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles to small presses throughout the country. In contrast to traditional European ateliers, where professional printers reproduced artists' designs for commercial edition printing, the new American workshops stressed collaboration, and emphasized radical experimentation with medium and process. The work produced in these studios often owed as much to the imaginative gifts of the printer as the conception of the artist.


Perspectives on contemporary printmaking

Perspectives on contemporary printmaking

Author: Ruth Pelzer-Montada

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-07-23

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1526125765

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This anthology, the first of its kind, presents thirty-two texts on contemporary prints and printmaking written from the mid-1980s to the present by authors from across the world. The texts range from history and criticism to creative writing. More than a general survey, they provide a critical topography of artistic printmaking during the period. The book is directed at an audience of international stakeholders in the field of contemporary print, printmaking and printmedia, including art students, practising artists, museum curators, critics, educationalists, print publishers and print scholars. It expands debate in the field and will act as a starting point for further research.


David Hockney (Fourth Edition) (World of Art)

David Hockney (Fourth Edition) (World of Art)

Author: Marco Livingstone

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 0500774110

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Intelligent, conscientious, sensitive. –Burlington Magazine The relationship between art and life has been of overriding importance in the work of David Hockney, who has perhaps enjoyed greater popularity than any other British artist this century. Here Marco Livingstone traces those connections from the beginning of the artist’s career in the early 1960s through the more recent works that have contributed to Hockney’s international reputation. These include photocollages and highly acclaimed stage designs for the opera as well as his embrace of technology, which show the continuing preoccupation with invention and artifice that has made the artist’s work at once popular and enduring. The fourth edition of this best-selling World of Art title includes updated information on Hockney’s work in the past twenty years, such as his foray into the world of digital art including large-scale iPad drawings and video.